Ploughing flooded ground for rice planting - north from main highway at Uji, near Kyoto, Japan
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.35
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting a man guiding a bull to pull a plough through flooded ground. The background features a tea store house, outbuildings and trees and a man carrying two large containers balanced on a pole across his shoulders. 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: (74) - Ploughing flooded ground for rice planting - north from main highway,at Uji, near Kyoto, 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 Japanese rice growing process and 'Ploughing flooded ground for rice planting; Japan. in English French German Italian Swedish Spanish and Russian.
Provenance
Part of 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 Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographer and publisher