Girls picking tea on famous plantation at Uji, among the many hills of old Japan
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
88 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.12
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting girls picking tea on famous plantation at Uji, among the many hills of old Japan. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: (76) - 3915 Girls picking tea on famous plantation at Uji, among the many hills of old Japan. Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left and margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin: "Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J Verso is a description of the tea growing, picking & drying process in the Japanese hills. Girls picking tea at Uji, Japan - in English, French German, Swedish, Spanish and Russian
Provenance
The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999 part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenon's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-86
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographer and publisher