Count Okuma & Baron Ishii – Antique 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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This rare historic photograph captures Count Okuma & Baron Ishii in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Count Okuma & Baron Ishii
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Count Shigenobu Okuma and Baron Kikujiro Ishii are the two men named in this picture's title, though the record notes that the identification comes from unverified caption data and gives no date. Okuma, a founder of Waseda University, led the Japanese government as prime minister from 1914 to 1916, and Ishii served as foreign minister during part of that period, which places the pairing in Tokyo's political and diplomatic circles of the mid-1910s. The Bain News Service, a New York agency whose glass negatives make up this collection, covered visiting dignitaries and public figures for its clients, so a portrait like this would have been made for news use. Treat the names as provisional until they are checked against the original caption cards.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,160 × 5,741 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-22501 |
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