Beschreibung:

A GROUP OF FIVE ALBUMEN PRINTS OF KOBE BY FELICE BEATO MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY) 'THE MASONIC HALL', KOBE (THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS REPRODUCED IN HAROLD S. WILLIAMS, TALES OF THE FOREIGN SETTLEMENTS (NEW YORK, 1958), P. 176, WHERE THE CAPTION STATES 'KYO-MACHI, KOBE IN EIGHTEEN SEVENTIES SHOWING THE MASONIC HALL IN CENTRE OF THE PICTURE, WITH ORIENTAL HOTEL ON LEFT, FOLLOWED BY INTERNATIONAL CLUB, LATER KNOWN AS KOBE CLUB, IN LEFT BACKGROUND IS THE SMOKESTACK OF THE BRITISH-OWNED KOBE PAPER MILL, IN THE RIGHT BACKGROUND ARE THE TREES ALONG THE BANKS OF THE IKUTA RIVER, WHERE THE NEW KOBE CITY HALL WAS COMPLETED IN 1957'), 'THE BUND KOBE' (SHOWING THE EUROPEAN RESIDENCES; THE BRITISH LEGATION, FLYING THE UNION JACK IS TOWARDS THE RIGHT OF THE PICTURE); 'VIEW OF THE HARBOUR AND HOTEL, KOBE', 'THE WATERFALL, KOBE' AND (REVERSE) 'ANOTHER VIEW OF THE WATERFALL, KOBE'