The first Japanese diplomatic delegation to the United States at Willard's Hotel

The first Japanese diplomatic delegation to the United States at Willard's Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1860

Title: The first Japanese diplomatic delegation to the United States at Willard's Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1860
Date Created/Published: 1860.
Summary: Wood engravings show the first Japanese diplomatic delegation to the United States at Willard's Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1860. Shinmi Masaoki returning to the hotel after a visit with President Buchanan; servants unpacking eighty tons of luggage in the ballroom; Japanese officers playing a game similar to checkers. Includes one wood engraving of Mathew Brady taking photographs of Japanese gifts in the reception room of the hotel.
Notes: Wood engravings published in Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Magazine, and New York Illustrierte Zeit.
LOT title and other information from catalog card and published guide: Washingtoniana Photographs ... Library of Congress, 1989.
Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1956.
Forms part of the Willard Family Papers, Manuscript Division.

Subjects: Delegations--Japanese--Washington (D.C.)--1860.
Diplomats--Japanese--Washington (D.C.)--1860.
Firsts--Washington (D.C.)--1860.


Bookmark /2004668800/
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