#stereo view

1950s MOTORCYCLE W/ SIDECAR ROADTRIP

1952 adorable couple on a European road trip on their bike with sidecar. Bike enthusiasts will know if it’s a Norton / Indian or Harley.  Original glass stereo view slides. 

Item No. E5541-2

Dimensions: Each slide 5″ x 2 1/4″

List Price. $ 75 for the both

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“Box Elder Canyon, near Fort Fetterman, southeast of Glenrock. Converse County, Wyoming. 1870. (Stereoscopic view similar to Jackson, W. H. 862)”

Photographer: William Henry Jackson

“Railroad roundhouse at Cheyenne.  Laramie County, Wyoming. 1869. U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Hayden Survey. Four Great Surveys of the West. (Stereoscopic view)”

Photographer: William Henry Jackson

This collection of images taken from Glass plate negative, Lantern slides, and half-stereoview prints were all originally taken during the late Meiji-era (1868-1912) in Japan. It helps to mention that at roughly the same time, the United States was in it's "Gilded Age" (1870-1900), Europe was enjoying "La Belle Époque" (1871-1914), and England was coming to the end of the Queen Victoria's long reign, and would soon move to the less restrictive Edwardian era.

Travel, and trade was busier than ever before, and one thing that found it's way into the Western world was the influence of Japanese art and design. The French term "Japonisme" was first described by French art critic and collector Philippe Burty in 1872, and refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design in western Europe in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of trade of Japan in 1858.

Most of these images were captured by NOBUKUNI ENAMI, who was a “photographer's photographer”, starting in the 1880s as an apprentice and assistant photographer until his death aged 70 in 1929. His own studio, established in Yokohama in 1892 when he was 33 years old, passed to his son who carried on as a commercial photo processor and publisher of his father’s photographs. When the studio was “closed forever” by the fire-bombings of WW2, it had been in continual existence for 53 years, and was one of the longest running studios to come out of Japan’s Meiji era. Some Western photographers also saw the opportunity for capturing stunning images in a country that had only recently come out of a long period of seclusion. Herbert Ponting, who was best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole also travelled around Japan taking stereoviews and working as a freelance photographer for English-speaking periodicals. Henty Strohmeyer, and Julian Cochrane also contributed to the large catalogue of images that help to record life in this part of Japan's history.

All of these images started as glass negatives, and then were printed as single images, or formed half of a stereoview, lantern slide, or halftone colour print. The quality does vary, and the ones that were hand tinted as lantern slides rely on the skill, and patience of the individual colorist which once again does vary considerably.

I decided to put together a small collection that I could colourise in my "style", using my personal techniques in the hope that I could make them a more cohesive set, and perhaps improve the clarity, and realism of the colour.

I have listed the images below, and used the original title where available. The black & white/sepia images I used are included with each picture in their untouched state.

1. Two Smiling Cherubs in the Tea Fields of Old Japan ...... Ca.1897-1900 T. ENAMI Glass Slide from a Stereoview.

2. Monk Descending Temple Steps, Light Breaks Through Clouds After a Morning Rain ...... Photo attributed to KOZABURO TAMAMURA of Yokohama Ca.1897-1900

3. The Great Buddha at Kamakura, Three elegant women shelter from the sun ...... Ca.1897-1900 T. ENAMI Glass Slide from a Stereoview.

4. Japanese Junks -- A Classic, Honored Image of Meiji-era Japan ...... Ca.1897-1900 T. ENAMI Glass Slide from a Stereoview.

5. A peasant carrying charcoal on his back, down from the mountain ...... Ca.1897-1900 T. ENAMI Glass Slide from a Stereoview.

6. Rustic Boaters under a Cloud-Capped MT. Fuji ...... Herbert G. Ponting Ca.1897-1900

7. Children on the Bluff at Yokohama ...... Ca.1897-1900 T. ENAMI Glass Slide from a Stereoview.

8. Shell Pickers on the Tidal Flats of Negishi, along the Cliffs of Cape Honmoku just south of Yokohama ...... Ca.1897-1900 T. ENAMI

9. View from the Summit of Mt. Fuji to Lake Yamanaka ...... Ca.1897-1900 T. ENAMI Glass Slide from a Stereoview.

10. A small sailboat under Fuji - visiting the local market for supplies ...... Ca.1897-1900 T. ENAMI Glass Slide from a Stereoview.

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