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Hunnewell house - Charleston, Boston Mass.

Hunnewell house. Built just after 1817 by Joseph Thompson. Soon after occupied by Amos Binney, one of the wealthiest men of Boston, and then by Commodore Perry, U.S.N. (afterward the widely known commander of t... More

Russian 500 lb. shell bursting near Japanese siege guns, Port Arthur

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Patricq Kroon - Rusland lokt landen uit China

Rusland lokt als de rattenvanger van Hamelen de vertegenwoordigers van verschillende landen (Groot-Brittannië, Verenigde Staten, Frankrijk, Japan) door de poort van Peking uit China. Duitsland staat boos met ge... More

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet - Ontwerpen voor kleden of tableau's met mono...

Ontwerpen voor kleden of tableau's met monogrammen van de Java-China-Japan-lijn en de Koninklijke Pakketvaart Maatschappij.

Fuji pumpverk, Japan. Ur album för KMW. AB Karlstads Mekaniska Werksta...

Fuji pumpverk, Japan. Ur album för KMW. AB Karlstads Mekaniska Werkstad.

Aga-fyren Habushiwa i Japan.. Public domain, Post-war Japan.

Aga-fyren Habushiwa i Japan. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mannen op een vlot in een rivier in Japan, mogelijk vissers met aalsch...

Onderdeel van Reisalbum met foto's van bezienswaardigheden in Japan. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gezicht op een stroomversnelling in Japan, mogelijk in de Hozurivier o...

Twee boten met (vermoedelijk) Europeanen op een rivier in Japan

Trein bij een station in Japan - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

SKA994. Public domain, Post-war Japan.. Public domain image of 1950s J...

Stereobildav gammal man, sittande i de dike där 4000 Japaner och Ryssar förlorade sina liv under nio angrepp, Nanshan Hill, Manchuria.

Mannen in een boot op een rivier, mogelijk de Hozurivier op Kyoto

USS Kitty Hawk - Aft Lookout Watch

At sea aboard USS Kitty Hawk Seaman Keyon Kidd from Detroit, MI, uses binoculars to scan the ocean while standing aft lookout watch during a General Quarters (GQ) drill. Seaman Kidd is responsible for reportin... More

Kimono for an Unmarried Woman - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication i...

In the years 1900-1920, a time of economic growth and optimism, large exuberant motifs were popular in Japan. Stylized forms and planes of solid colour were also widely used. The traditional decoration of large... More

Merchant & Nuuanu Streets, Yokohama Specie Bank Building, 24-32 Mercha...

Significance: The Yokohama Specie Bank was the first Japanese bank to be established in the Hawaiian islands as a branch of Japan's premier banking establishment. This sophisticated Merchant Street structure r... More

Secretary of State at the White House. Washington, D.C., Aug. 19. Secr...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

1910 Japanese Flowering Cherry Trees , East Potomac Golf Course, East ...

See also HABS DC-692 for related documentation. Significance: The Japanese flowering cherries (Prunus x yedoensis) planted in East Potomac Golf Course are significant because the available evidence strongly ind... More

Joffre in Tokyo - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows French general Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852-1931) who served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Joffre in Tokyo, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows French general Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852-1931) who served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.... More

Kiaotschau - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a view of the town of Qingdao (Tsingtao) which was the administrative center of the German concession of Jiaozhou (Kiautschou), China. Japanese and British forces attacked the German-controlled... More

General Oka - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Baron Oka Ichinosuke (1860-1916) who served as a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and as Minister of War during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Joffre in Tokyo - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows French general Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852-1931) who served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Eisenbahnviadukt bei Chiusaforte.

The Isonzo is a river in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Slovenia) that was the site of several major battles during World War I. The Isonzo Front was the name given to the area where the fighting took place. ... More

Keio University ball team - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Keio University (Japan) baseball players with ballpayers from the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants World Tour of 1913-14. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title and date from data pr... More

Emblems of liberty and humanity The Red Cross, mother of all nations.

Poster showing two Red Cross nurses, one cradling in her arms a child on a litter, between the flags of Japan and the United States. Text also in Japanese.

Here is opportunity See the world, serve your country, save your money...

U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing a sailor pointing to a billboard while encouraging a young man to "join the navy and see the world"; also includes list of occupations available in the navy, reasons for joi... More

Steamer EMPRESS OF RUSSIA off Mt. Fujiyama, the sacred mountain of Jap...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Japan. Photograph by Canadian Pacific Railway. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig with H.R.H. Prince Yurihiti of Higash...

Prince Yurihito of Higashi-Fushimi (1867-1922) with Field Marshall Douglas Haig, at a train stop near the Western Front. Born in Kyoto, Prince Yurihito was the seventeenth son of the Higashi-Fushimi royal dynas... More

Münchner Kriegsblätter Ur-Steindrucke deutscher Künstler Michel und se...

Print depicting the state of German affairs following August 1, 1914 (the date it entered the first World War), showing a gigantic male figure, representing Germany, wearing armor and holding a sword, with rows... More

Destroyer USS Strong transiting the Panama Canal May

Destroyer USS Strong transiting the Panama Canal May 1952, View of the Panama Canal and locks from the deck of the USS Strong. Strong was attached to Destroyer Divisions (DesDiv) 21 and 262 bound for action in ... More

American Red Cross - Miscellaneous - American Red Cross, Russian Islan...

Date Taken: 3/8/1919 Photographer: Underwood & Underwood American Red Cross - Miscellaneous

Kaiser von Japan, Yoshihito. 1910s Japan, public domain image.

[Electronic ed.]

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig with H.R.H. Prince Yurihiti of Higash...

Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito (1867-1922) with General Douglas Haig, beside a general staff car near the Western Front. Born in Kyoto, Prince Yorihito was the seventeenth son of the Higashi-Fushimi royal dynas... More

Midships of Russian battleship CZAREVITCH (i.e., Tsesarevich)

Photograph shows the Tsesarevich, a battleship of the Russian Imperial Navy which saw service in the Russo-Japanese war and World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

We offer you a full partnership : it is to laugh!

German military officer with foot bandage, "Verdun" (possibly William II), and Mexican military officer, offering partnership to military officer, "Japan," standing on words, "The Allies." Possibly referring to... More

Humorist - Darstellung de Wappen unserer Feinde 1914

Print shows a humorous interpretation of the coats-of-arms or heraldic shields of Germany's perceived enemies. The countries represented are: France, Russia, Great Britain, Montenegro, Belgium, Serbia, and Japa... More

Keio University ball team - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Keio University (Japan) baseball players with ballpayers from the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants World Tour of 1913-14. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Defenders of Tsing Tau - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German soldiers outside of Tsingtao (now Qingdao), China, probably during the Siege of Tsingtao during which the German-controlled port city was attacked by British and Japanese forces.

Kurupensky Kroupensky, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Basile Kroupensky, the Russian ambassador in Japan who expressed gratitude for U.S. support during World War I in July 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by t... More

Crown Prince of Japan - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Emperor Showa of Japan (1901-1989) (Hirohito) who reigned from 1926-1989. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Mr. Kono, Dr. Takato, Marquis Okuma, Viscount Kato

Photograph shows Japanese politician Okuma Shigenobu (1838-1922); Kato Takaaki (1860-1926), Prime Minister of Japan; and possibly statesman Hironaka Kona (1849-1923). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Titl... More

Match Européen de 1914-1915 Tactiques différentes Boiry

Print shows American president Woodrow Wilson refereeing a boxing match as world leaders observe: Enver Pasha, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Emperor Franz Joseph I, King Nikola I of Montenegro, King Peter I, Emperor Taish... More

Gov. General of Indo-China & French Ambassador, Tokyo

Photograph shows Ernest Roume (1858-1941), Governor of French Indochina from 1914 to 1917 (left) and Eugene Regnault (b. 1857), the French Ambassador to Japan from 1914 to 1918. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

C.E. Niles in Japan - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows early aviator Charles Franklin Niles (d. 1916) flying in Japan. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

R.S. Morris by Zorn - Public domain portrait painting

Photograph shows a portrait of American ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris (1874-1945) as painted by Anders Leonard Zorn (1860-1920). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the... More

Ozaki, Kato, Kono, Takata (Kensei - Kwai)

Photograph shows Yukio Ozaki (1859-1954) who served as Minister of Justice of Japan and in the House of Representatives of the Japanese Diet; Sanae Takata (1860-1938) and other members of the Kensei Kai (Consti... More

AZUMA, Japan. Warship photograph collection

Photograph shows the armed Japanese cruiser Azuma which was built in France. In 1917, the Azuma was dispatched on a diplomatic mission to the U.S. to return the body of George Wilkins Guthrie, the U.S. Ambassad... More

Viscount Kikusiro Ishii - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Viscount Ishii Kikujiro (1866-1945), a Japanese diplomat who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan between 1915 and 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Marine Exhibition, Ueno Park, Tokyo

Photograph shows a building and Shinobazo pond, Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Marquis Cusani Confalonieri - [Italian Ambassador to Japan]

Photograph shows Luigi Girolamo Cusani Confalonieri, ambassador to Japan from Italy (1917-1920). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

C.E. Niles in Japan - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows early aviator Charles Franklin Niles (d. 1916) flying in Japan. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George G... More

Marine Exhibition, Ueno Park, Tokyo

Photograph shows a building and Shinobazo pond, Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham ... More

The official party poses for a photo during the Tree Planting Friendsh...

CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii (Nov. 10, 2016) Consulate General of Japan in Honolulu, Yasushi Misawa and Mrs. Misawa; Director General Emeritus of Makino Botanical Garden, Dr. Tetsuo Koyama and Mrs. Koyama; Commander... More

Japan - Officers visiting Yasukuni Shrine on festival

Photograph shows the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan which honors people who died in service of Japan.(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Shigo Idzumi, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Shigo Idzumi was the Secretary to the Department of Finance of Japan who came to the United States in 1918 to study war taxation. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided... More

AZUMA, Japan, George Grantham Bain Collection

Statue of Count Okuma - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows a statue of Japanese statesman Marquess Okuma Shigenobu (1838-1922) who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1914 to 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by t... More

Gov. General of Indo-China & French Ambassador, Tokyo

Mrs. Ishii & children - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows the family of Viscount Ishii Kikujiro (1866-1945), a Japanese diplomat who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan between 1915 and 1916. The boy is riding a tricycle. Photograph was publish... More

Viscount Ishii - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Viscount Ishii Kikujiro (1866-1945), a Japanese diplomat who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan between 1915 and 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

The Japanese Red Cross contigent, bent on a mission of mercy that carr...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Under. & Underwood (cop.) Group title: Personnel, Japan. Used in: Ex. indef.... More

Prince Tokugawa, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Tokugawa Lesato (1863-1940), the head of the Tokugawa clan in Japan. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geo... More

Marquis Cusani Confalonieri - Italian Ambassador to Japan

Photograph shows Luigi Girolamo Cusani Confalonieri, ambassador to Japan from Italy (1917-1920). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms ... More

Japanese cabinet members, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Baron Wakatsuki Reijiro (1866-1949) (third from left) and Hamaguchi Osachi (1870-1931), a Japanese politician, cabinet minister and Prime Minister of Japan from 1929 to 1931 (fo... More

Adm. Harry Harris helps plant a cherry blossom tree during Tree Planti...

CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii (Nov. 10, 2016) Adm. Harry Harris, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, and Ms. Bruni Bradley; Director General Emeritus of Makino Botanical Garden, Dr. Tetsuo Koyama and Mrs. Koyama; Cons... More

Red Cross nurses & doctors from Japan going to Europe

Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waseda students Japan, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows students from Wasea University, Japan. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (... More

Bodies of Jap[anese] Navy aviators killed by a fall, on torpedo boat

Photograph shows the remains of two naval airman, Lieutenants Tongu and Abe who were killed on March 20, 1916 in a crash of their hydroplane at the opening of the Marine Exposition at Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan.

Frances Benjamin Johnston - [Reproduction of illustration: "Garden Coo...

Photograph of an illustration by Ella du Cane, in Ella and Florence du Cane, The Flower Gardens of Japan, 1908. On slide (handwritten): "J" in a gold-edged seal sticker. Possibly photographed by Frances Benjam... More

Frances Benjamin Johnston - [Reproduction of illustration: "Wisteria K...

Photograph of illustration by Ella du Cane, in Ella and Florence du Cane, The Flower Gardens of Japan, 1908. On slide (handwritten): "J" in gold-edged seal sticker. Possibly photographed by Frances Benjamin Jo... More

Viscount Kikusiro Ishii, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Viscount Ishii Kikujirō (1866-1945), a Japanese diplomat who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan between 1915 and 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provid... More

Bodies of Japanese Navy aviators killed by a fall, on torpedo boat

Now to see perhaps how the idea works out

A large figure of a man, dressed in Asian garb, is labeled "China." He holds an umbrella and a document marked, "My Rights." Beside him on the ground, is an open book entitled, "My Guide--American Ideas." A p... More

Chas. Niles in Japan - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows early aviator Charles Franklin Niles (d. 1916) flying in Japan. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Mrs. Ishii & children, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows the family of Viscount Ishii Kikujirō (1866-1945), a Japanese diplomat who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan between 1915 and 1916. The boy is riding a tricycle. Photograph was publish... More

Early automobiles - Emperor of Japan

Photograph shows Emperor Taisho of Japan (1879-1926) who ruled from 1912 until 1926. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Emperor of Japan, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Emperor Taisho of Japan (1879-1926) who ruled from 1912 until 1926. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geor... More

Mrs. Tsuneko Watanabe, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Mrs. Tsuneko Watanabe who worked as a teacher at a Congregational female mission school in Kobe, Japan, was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement and the Japanese Congregational w... More

Chas. Niles in Japan - Public domain portrait photograph

Count Okuma at unveiling of statue of Baron Matsuda

Photograph shows Japanese politician Marquess Okuma Shigenobu (1838-1922), who served as Prime Minister of Japan (1914-1916) at the unveiling of a statue of Baron Masahisa Matsuda. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Count Okuma welcomes Paul Des Jardien of Chicago baseball team, 11/18/...

Photograph shows Marquess Okuma Shigenobu (1838-1922), Prime Minister of Japan, shaking hands with Paul Raymond "Shorty" Des Jardien (1893-1956), an American football, baseball and basketball player who travele... More

Count Okuma welcomes Paul Des Jardien of Chicago baseball team, 111815

Count Okuma & Baron Ishii - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Japanese politician Marquess Okuma Shigenobu (1838-1922), who served as Prime Minister of Japan (1914-1916) with diplomat Viscount Ishii Kikujiro (1866-1945), who was Minister for Foreign Affa... More

Japan - Officers visiting Yasukuni Shrine on festival

Photograph shows the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan which honors people who died in service of Japan.(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News S... More

Matsui, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Keisho Matsui, a representative from Japan to the Paris Peace Conference after World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negat... More

Malewsky-Malewich, Rus[sian] Ambassador leaving Japan

Photograph shows Nikolai Andreevich Malevsky-Malevich (1856-1917), who served as the Russian ambassador to Japan from 1908 to 1916 when he left due to ill health. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014 and the E... More

Waseda students [Japan] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows students from Wasea University, Japan. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Roland Morris going to call on Japanese Emperor

Photograph shows American diplomat Roland Sletor Morris (1874-1945) who served as ambassador to Japan (1917-19130), in a horse-drawn carriage on his way to meet with the Emperor of Japan. (Source: Flickr Common... More

Marquis Inouye, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Katsunosuke Inoue (1861-1929), a Japanese diplomat and businessman. Photograph probably taken at the time when Inouye was replaced as Japanese ambassador to Britain and traveled back to Japan t... More

Military at Wrestling match at Yasukuni Shrine, Japan

Photograph shows a wrestling match at the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan which honors people who died serving Japan and is the site of annual sumo wrestling matches. (Source: Flickr C... More

Siamese royal yacht, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph probably shows the cruiser Maha Chakrkri when it was sent to Japan. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014 and Sunday Oregonian, NOv. 5, 1916) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the ... More

Japanese Naval Aviator Yoshio Shimizu

(L) Japanese Naval Aviator Yoshio Shimizu, an Airman 1st class, and (R) a Japanese sailor. Yoshio Shimizu was an Aichi D3A1 dive bomber bombardier. The two-man crew of this second wave aircraft from the Japan... More

Gary & wife, Baron Shibusawa - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photograph shows businessman and judge, Elbert H. Gary (1846-1927) and his wife, Emma, with Shibusawa Eiichi, 1st Viscount Shibusawa (1840-1931) during a visit to Japan. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Motono, Terauchi, Goto, Den, Nakakoji

Photograph shows Count Terauchi Masatake (1852-1919), Prime Minister of Japan (1916-1918) with his cabinet: Viscount Motono Ichiro (1862-1918), Count Goto Shinpei (1857-1929), Baron Den Kenjiro (1855-1930) and ... More

Motono, Terauchi, Goto, Den, Nakakoji

U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on Kilo Pier at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks on. President Obama described the U.S.-Japan alliance as the cornerstone of peace... More

G.W. Guthrie & wife, Tokyo - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows George Wilkins Guthrie (1848-1917) U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1913 to 1917 and his wife, the former Florence J. Howe. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the B... More

Grand Duke George Michaelowich & Prince Kanin

Photograph shows Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865-1945), a member of the Japanese Imperial family riding in a carriage with Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863-1919). Grand Duke Mikhailovich visited Japa... More

Marquis Inouye - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Katsunosuke Inoue (1861-1929), a Japanese diplomat and businessman. Photograph probably taken at the time when Inoue was replaced as Japanese ambassador to Britain and traveled back to Japan th... More

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