Japan tourist souvenir photo album

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Part of the popular 'customs and costumes' series that were sold to tourists as mementos. Pasted hand-colored albumen prints on thick paper based board mounted in album with painted and inlaid wood covers. Acquired with detached pages and covers. Rough hand-coloring. Measure about 5 x 7 inches, but don't have it handy for exact measurements. (In storage locker.)

I wonder how much the albums sold for back in the day?

Anyone have an idea as to date?

https://japancustomscostumes.wordpress.com/2018/11/11/japanese-tourist-souvenir-photo-album/

A couple photos are missing as WordPress refused to upload. Then when I tried to keep forcing them to upload, WP took down my site for a time. Who knows why they do this. Full series is on Internet Archive.

This is a pain to scan. No cushy sheet fed scanner for this. Most pages had an overlay sheet protector to deal with.
 
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Thanks. Good detective work.

I was excited about the NYPL link for a digital source of material. I was surprised. A lot of what they have is not free if you want hi-res. Many digital libraires offer hi-res or medium-res for free.

Look at their fee chart, they must be in competition with Getty Images.

https://www.nypl.org/help/get-what-you-need/photographic-services/obtaining-images

To bad, they had a lot of items I was interested in.
 
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