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Watching a free show, on Theatre Street, looking north to Asakusa Tower, Tokyo, Japan – Antique Photo Print

Watching a free show, on Theatre Street, looking north to Asakusa Tower, Tokyo, Japan, New York ; London ; Toronto-Canada ; Ottawa-Kansas : Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, c1904 December 30. — historic photograph
Watching a free show, on Theatre Street, looking north to Asakusa Tower, Tokyo, Japan, New York ; London ; Toronto-Canada ; Ottawa-Kansas : Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, c1904 December 30.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Watching a free show, on Theatre Street, looking north to Asakusa Tower, Tokyo, Japan, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Crowds gather on theater Street in Asakusa, Tokyo's lively entertainment quarter, where a free show draws onlookers toward the brick silhouette of Asakusa Tower, a landmark also known as Ryūnkaku. Underwood & Underwood, a New York firm that sold stereograph views for home viewers, published this card in 1904, when Japan was becoming a popular subject for Western audiences. The scene shows how popular entertainment spilled out of theaters and into the open street, with spectators packed closely around the performance. The tower, which rose above the district as a symbol of modern Tokyo, was badly damaged in the 1923 earthquake.

Created / publishedNew York ; London ; Toronto-Canada ; Ottawa-Kansas : Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, c1904 December 30.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH45388 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 31. Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount under Sun Sculpture Trade Mark: Works and Studios - Arlington, N.J., Littleton, N.H., Washington, D.C.
SubjectsTheater audiences--Japan--Tokyo--1900-1910. Theaters--Japan--Tokyo--1900-1910. Streets--Japan--Tokyo--1900-1910. Asakusa-ku (Tokyo, Japan)--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,288 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-209916

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