View of Port Arthur

View of Port Arthur

Bound volume

View of Port Arthur

1906
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Image (each): 3 7/16 × 5 1/4 in. (8.8 × 13.4 cm)
Overall (open): 5 1/2 × 45 3/8 in. (14 × 115.3 cm)
Overall (closed): 5 1/2 × 5 11/16 × 3/16 in. (14 × 14.5 × 0.4 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
DescriptionPaper-bound, accordion-style album with 8 pages, containing 7 photographs. Six of the photographs create a panorama. One photograph is a combination print with portraits of General Nogi and General Stoessel.
Inscriptions Printed in black ink on front cover, TC: Published by T. MORIYA. \ No. 18, Onoyecho Nichome, Yokohama.
Printed in black ink on front cover, C: View \ of \ Port Arthur \ With the Portraits \ of \ General Nogi \ " Stossel.
Printed in black ink on front cover, BC: Branch offices { No. 18, Taku-road, Tienstin \ No. 17, Oyamadori Ichome Tairen
[Applied to each photograph throughout album there are voided tax stamps]
On recto of pages 3 and 4, printed in black ink, TR: VIEW OF PORT ARTHUR
On final page, inscribed in pencil, TR: From Buenos Aires 8/1950 Boyer \ [illegible]
[There are Chinese or Japanese characters printed in black ink on the endpaper pasted to cover, throughout the album pages, on the endpaper adhered to back cover(surrounded by illustration of a sheet of paper), and on the back cover]

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