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Blacksmith at work.. 1910s Japan, public domain image.

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Blacksmith at work.. 1910s Japan, public domain image.

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Item is a photographic glass-plate transparency; part of a set of colour-tinted transparencies depicting life in Japan ca. 1910, including scenery, street scenes, workers, farming, fishing, silk production, stone carvers, wood carvers, metal workers, potters, and artists.

The University of Victoria Libraries collection consists of photographic glass-plate transparencies depicting life in Japan, including scenery, street scenes, workers, farming, fishing, silk production, stone carvers, wood carvers, metal workers, potters, and artists. These "Yokohama photographs" were sold to foreign tourists between about 1868 and 1912, before cameras and postcards were generally available. Herbert Geddes was a manager for G.R. Gregg and Company, importers and exporters, in Vancouver and Winnipeg. He was sent to Japan and was based in Yokohama between 1908 and 1918. Geddes was manager for Gregg and Company in Vancouver until the mid-1950s. He willed the glass slides to his nephew D. Boyce Geddes.

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