Marquis Matsukata – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Marquis Matsukata. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This glass negative is catalogued under the title "Marquis Matsukata," a name the Bain News Service recorded on its negative or caption card, though the record flags that identification as unverified. Matsukata Masayoshi was a Meiji-era statesman who served as Japan's finance minister and prime minister, and he is best known for stabilizing the country's currency and placing it on the gold standard in 1897. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, sold news photographs of prominent visitors and public figures in the early twentieth century, so an image like this one shows how Japanese leaders were presented to American readers of the period.
| 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 | 4,222 × 5,798 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25873 |
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