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The Jinrikisha [Japan]
1901
B.W. Kilburn
USA: New Hampshire, Littleton
Photograph on paper mounted on board
overall: 3-1/2"h x 7"w x 1/4"d
Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection, Gift of Thomas Garrett
2010.055.196

Black and white stereocard photograph of a pulled rickshaw in Japan. Title is stamped in black at the bottom and reads "13990. The Jinrikisha. The chief mode of travel in Japan for Centuries". Mounted on tan card. Doubled image of a male rickshaw driver in traditional Japanese hat pulling two female passengers in a rickshaw. A third woman stands next to the carriage bowing. The women all wear traditional Japanese kimonos. Stamped in black on the end of the card "Copyright 1901, by B. W. Kilburn." Stamped in black on the back of the card " Photographed and Published by / B. W. Kilburn, = Littleton, N. H."



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