A spatial interface to twenty essays on the objects and themes of the exhibit as well as the objects and landmarks
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A look at the technical processes along with the men and women who made all these cultural commodities in New York
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Return of the Japanese Embassy from City Hall, Anthony’s Instantaneous Views, No. 24
Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., 1860
Albumen silver prints from glass negatives (stereoscopic views)
3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (8.2 × 17.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Herbert Mitchell Collection, 2007, 2007.457.3626
On June 16, 1860, a Japanese diplomatic party arrived in New York to negotiate a trade treaty, the first since Japan opened to commerce with the United States in 1854. Foreign dignitaries arrived in style, traveling with a military escort from Battery Park along Broadway to City Hall. This particular stereoview was probably taken from a window as the ambassadors returned to the Metropolitan Hotel on Broadway after their visit to New York’s political notables.
— Virginia Spofford
