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Garden party with guests in formal dress, photographed outdoors – Antique Photo Print

Garden party with guests in formal dress, photographed outdoors — historic photograph
Garden party with guests in formal dress, photographed outdoors. Historic photograph from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Garden party with guests in formal dress, photographed outdoors comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Garden party with guests in formal dress, photographed outdoors

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Guests in formal Western dress stroll across a lawn in this outdoor garden party, a scene that would have been unusual in many places at the time it was taken. The board places the picture among Japanese prints, which suggests a setting in Japan, where the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the adoption of Western social customs among government officials, businesspeople and their families. Gatherings like this often served as public displays of modernization, and the contrast between tailored coats and long gowns against a garden backdrop is worth a closer look. The record gives no names or exact date, so the scene's specific occasion remains open.

Original scan4,434 × 3,557 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
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