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Snow-capped, cloud-encircled Fujiyama, the sacred mountain of Japan from the northwest – Vintage Print

Snow-capped, cloud-encircled Fujiyama, the sacred mountain of Japan from the northwest, c1904. — historic photograph
Snow-capped, cloud-encircled Fujiyama, the sacred mountain of Japan from the northwest, c1904.. 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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Snow-capped, cloud-encircled Fujiyama, the sacred mountain of Japan from the northwest comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Snow-capped, cloud-encircled Fujiyama, the sacred mountain of Japan from the northwest

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Snow covers the upper slopes of Fuji in this view from the northwest, with cloud wrapped around its lower flanks. Stereograph cards like this one, issued by Underwood & Underwood around 1904, carried travel scenes from distant places into American parlors, where a hand viewer fused the two side-by-side images into a single view with depth. Fuji, a volcano about 12,400 feet high, has been revered in Japan for centuries as a sacred mountain and a pilgrimage site, and it became a favorite subject for artists and photographers. The record's caption details are unverified, so the exact vantage point should be read as the publisher's description.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 736 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159318

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