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ContributorsScott, William Bell, 1811-1890 (Author) / Connelly, Mollie (Transcriber)
Created1852-03-15
DescriptionConcerning Scott's declining of a book he was to borrow.
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Created1856 to 1911
DescriptionConcerning the autograph of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer as John Strange Winter.
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ContributorsWashington, Booker T., 1856-1915 (Author) / Connelly, Mollie (Transcriber)
Created1915-05-11
DescriptionConcerning an appeal for scholarship money for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institution for the Training of Colored Young Men and Women.
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ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / Watanabe Hori Ei (Contributor) / 渡辺 彫 栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1875
DescriptionThis print depicts a woman in a graveyard being rescued by a policeman. The attempted rapist (right) flees from the scene. It is from a series of illustrated sensational news items that Yoshitoshi drew for the newspaper Yūbin hōchi shinbun.
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ContributorsKitagawa Utamaro (Artist) / 喜多川 歌麿 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1797 to 1801
Description
Triptych depicting courtesans, a farmer with with two baskets of eggplant, and a falconer and his falcon being ferried across a river, with Mt. Fuji in the background.
A legend holds that to dream about Mt. Fuji, falcons and eggplant on the first night of the New Year is an omen

Triptych depicting courtesans, a farmer with with two baskets of eggplant, and a falconer and his falcon being ferried across a river, with Mt. Fuji in the background.
A legend holds that to dream about Mt. Fuji, falcons and eggplant on the first night of the New Year is an omen of good fortune.
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ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1847 to 1850
DescriptionTwo panels of a vertical ōban triptych
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ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1835 to 1841
Description

Triptych depicting backstage preparations during a kabuki play.

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ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1842 to 1846
Description

Triptych depicting the court dancer Shizuka Gozen 静 御前 (center) dancing before Minamoto no Yoritomo (far left).

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ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1847
DescriptionPortrait and biography of one of the 47 rōnin from the Chūshingura story
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ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / Horikō Shōji (Contributor) / 彫工 庄治 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1854
Description

Depicted are the characters Kujaku Saburō Narihira 孔雀 三郎 成平 (left), Ono Komachi 小野 小町 (center), and Ōtomo Kuronushi 大伴 黒主 (right).