Kichi Saburo Nomura, 1877-1964 – Historic Print
(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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A window into the past: Kichi Saburo Nomura, 1877-1964, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Kichi Saburo Nomura, 1877-1964
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Kichi Saburo Nomura, a Japanese naval officer who later became a diplomat, is the subject of this 1929 portrait. He served as Japan's ambassador to the United States in 1941, when he joined the final talks with Washington that failed to prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor. The print is credited to Underwood & Underwood, a New York firm that supplied portraits and news photographs to American newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century. The late 1920s were a period of active naval diplomacy between Japan, Britain and the United States, which makes the picture a useful glimpse of a figure who would later be central to a far more fraught moment.
| Created / published | 1929 Sept. 27 |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Underwood & Underwood. No. 69249RU. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Ind.; BI; Shelf. Nomura, Kichi Saburo. Sources checked: Web-1877-1964; MUMS. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,035 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150619 |
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