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Description: | Print: Japanese railway transport 1870s-1880s. Group of five prints each image 15x21 cm mounted together in frame 81.5x67.5x3cm. Each image depicting aspects of railway transport in three, no.8 four, scenes seperated by red borders. Stations, turntable, points, signals, passengers. Railways constructed in Japan from 1854; little outside help from 1880s. Woodblock medium introduced modern technology to Japanese public. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | print | Temporal: | 1854-1880s | Source: | Science Museum | Identifier: | 1983-515/4 | Go to resource |
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