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[Hirobumi Ito, 1841-1909, full-length portrait, seated, with wife, son and grandsons] – Historic Photograph Print

[Hirobumi Ito, 1841-1909, full-length portrait, seated, with wife, son and grandsons] — historic photograph
[Hirobumi Ito, 1841-1909, full-length portrait, seated, with wife, son and grandsons]. 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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[Hirobumi Ito, 1841-1909, full-length portrait, seated, with wife, son and grandsons]

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Here Ito Hirobumi is shown full length and seated among his household, with his wife, a son and his grandsons, a more domestic arrangement than the formal solo portraits usually made of Japan's most powerful statesmen. Ito served four times as prime minister and was a principal author of the Meiji Constitution of 1889. The photograph dates to about 1904, when he was a senior elder statesman during the Russo-Japanese War, and it presents him as a family patriarch as much as a political leader. He was assassinated in Harbin in 1909.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1904.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,302 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119220

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