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Hirohito - in dress uniform – Historic Print

Hirohito - in dress uniform, 1935 — historic photograph
Hirohito - in dress uniform, 1935. 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 Hirohito - in dress uniform, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Here we see Emperor Hirohito of Japan in full dress uniform, a formal military portrait taken around 1935. Hirohito, born in 1901, had come to the throne in 1926, and by the mid-1930s Japan was expanding its military presence in China, which gave official portraits like this one considerable political weight. The print survives as a reproduction of a photograph kept in an album, so the image reflects how the emperor was presented to the public at the time. Its caption card is unverified, so the exact circumstances of the sitting are not recorded.

Created / published1935
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesRepr. of photos, in album. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,116 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119070

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