Viscount Kikusiro Ishii – Vintage 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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Viscount Kikusiro Ishii comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Viscount Kikusiro Ishii
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Viscount Kikujirō Ishii, a Japanese diplomat, is the subject here, and the record spells his name as Kikusiro. Ishii served as a senior envoy during the years Japan and the United States were negotiating over China, and in 1917 he signed the Lansing-Ishii Agreement with U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers with news photographs in the early twentieth century, made this negative, though the record gives no date. Its value lies in showing how Japanese statesmen were presented to American audiences during that period of diplomacy.
| 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 | 4,166 × 5,716 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-23550 |
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