1859 Wood Engraving Portrait English Male Female Man Woman Edo Period XGCB2 XGSB4 This is an original 1966

This is an original 1966 color print ad for the First National City Bank featuring the Bombay (Mumbai)Citibank staff at the Gateway of India monument in Bombay (Mumbai)

This is an original 1918 black and white print ad for Peru Chair Works' furniture in the style of Louis XV

and the national folk costumes from Vika and Orsa

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes

seafood Vintage Advertising

1859 Wood Engraving Portrait English Male Female Man Woman Edo Period XGCB2 XGSB4 This is an original 1966This is an original 1859 black and white wood engraving of an early anthropological portrait of the "Japanese male and female" originally produced to inform English audiences. This sort of dehumanizing nature was common among European visitors to Japan in the 1800's. Had more information been provided it would have been noted that these were a man and woman of samurai standing in the Edo Period's complex social structure. CONDITION This 152+ year old