1890s Picture Albums from Kelly & Walsh, Yokohama

Two picture albums (sorry no shots of the inside) that show what the publishers (Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Yokohama) were publishing out of their Yokohama operation in the 1890s. These albums were prepared by the prolific local photographer Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929), best known perhaps for his 1892 book for Kelly & Walsh, Japanese Life. More on Ogawa here.

These albums form the later 1890s were prepared and sold by Kelly & Walsh, – Souvenir of a Garden Party at Waseda and The Hanami (Flower Picnic) – were mostly sold to visitors, sojourners and the foreign colony at Yokohama in its treaty port period.