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The Japanese Mission of 1860 - Photo 2
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- Library of Congress
The Japanese Mission of 1860 - Photo 2
Alfred R. Waud entitled his sketch “Scene in the corridor, outside the Japanese apartments at Willards showing one of the princes the use of the microscope and stereoscope.”
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