WELCOME American Fleet - Issued by the Department of Communications in commemoration of the Visit of the American Fleet. Oct. 1908. – Works

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WELCOME American Fleet - Issued by the Department of Communications in commemoration of the Visit of the American Fleet. Oct. 1908.

Printer: Tokyo Printing Company (Tôkyô insatsu kabushiki kaisha)

Japanese

1908

Medium/Technique Chromolithograph and metallic pigment with collotype on embossed card stock.

Dimensions Horizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder

Accession Number2015.10449

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPostcards

DescriptionBack: 2/3 divided. Mint.
Printed by the Tokyo Printing Co. Ltd.

ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)