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Portrait of Alice Mae Turner holding an infant Katharyn Martha Turner, standing in front of the shuttered windows of a European-style building. To the right appears to be a baby carriage. The handwritten caption at left reads "Katharyn and Alice…

A photograph of Katharyn Martha Turner (b. 1897) and William Taylor Turner (1900-1996) in front of a namako-kabe (tile + plaster) wall. Katharyn is about 4 years old, William about one.

This is a photograph of the pine tree of Kenrokuen Garden, in Sakamoto, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture. Turner has added the inscription, "Pine tree at Karasaki, one of the most curious in the world. Length of branches, from N. to S. 288 ft., No. of…

A man steers an ox-drawn cart loaded with straw bales. The photographer (Kusakabe Kimbei?) titled the print "Country road-side scene" while Turner added the caption "A load of charcoal."

Two men are swinging mattocks to harvest bamboo shoots. A third man is squatting on the ground and pointing. The photographer has labeled the print, "H52. Cutting Young Bamboo," and Turner has added the inscription, "The bamboo is one of the most…

An image of three men actively threshing rice using a foot operated device overseen by a fourth man. The photographer has labelled the print, "43. Pounding rice."

Composite of professional photographs of babies' faces. The handwritten caption reads "These are the actual photographs of 1700 Japanese babies, taken during 10 years by a Tokyo photographer. There are two foreign babies in the group." The studio's…

Labelled "Morning prayer of budhist's priest [sic]" by the photographer, this image shows a priest seated in front of a r altar.

View of buildings, canals, and a bridge in Osaka. Turner's, "Osaka, Japan--great commercial center. 2nd city in the Empire. Sometimes called the Venice of Japan on account of its numerous water ways + bridges."

Campus of Kobe Girls' Academy (Kobe Jogakuin), now Kobe College (Kobe Jogakuin Daigaku). Turner's inscription reads, "Kobe, Japan. Headquarters of Southern Methodist Mission. Congregational girls' school in foreground."