Oil Industry Foreigner in Meiji Era Japan Photo Archive Over 150 Annotated Photos, 1900s
Turn-of-the-century Japan photo archive documenting foreign commercial travel, oil and mining activity, rural labor, and domestic life during the late Meiji era, when Japan was rapidly building railways, mines, refineries, modern ports, and industrial companies after the 1868 Meiji Restoration. The material appears connected to a Western man and his.....
