Sira, Tokie, Coloured Albumen Prints of Japan

Album of Albumen prints with many hand tinted, most with pencil descriptions written below and include:A photograph of a Japanese photographer with a developing tent on a tripod with cases and chemical bottles along with tired-looking sherpas sitting around, on a cobbled road, titled in pencil ‘Hakone’, Note the photographer is unknown but possibly Tokei Sira, the photographer whose name is on some of the photograhs in this album, also the only known image of a 19th century Japanese photographer known to exist – we beliveA garden titled in pencil ‘Yokohama public garden’A beach scene titled in pencil Inoshima’ ( presumably Innoshima, Hiroshima)The great Budda titled in pencil ‘Daibutsu’A temple and street titled in pencil ‘Asakusa – Toker’A street Scene titled in pencil ‘Yokohama’A photograph of a building titled in pencil ‘Grand Hotel – Yokohama’A street scene titled in pencil ‘Yokohama’A harbour scene titled in pencil ‘Tokio’ (Tokyo)A large temple complex titled in pencil ‘Kiata’ ( presumably Kiata, Hiroshima)A park with buildings titled in pencil ‘Ueno Park Tokio’ (Tokyo)A river/estuary harbour titled in pencil ‘Yokohama’A large building titled in pencil ’Kiata’Road scene titled in pencil TokaidoMounting in the distance titled ‘Fuji Yama’Temple, untitled but signed in the image TOKEI-SIRAA harbour scene with tall ships at anchor titled in pencil ‘Yokohama English Hatoba’A roof top scene of Yokohama to the coast titled in pencil ‘Yokohama’A scene of a temple garden titled in pencil ‘Tokir’A temple garden titled in pencil ‘Nikko’The album then reverses with the following imagesStudio studies of various traditional Japanese dress including Geisha, baker, monks, farm worker, Samurai, street sellers, acrobats,All in the original silk bound album (worn with one board separate) the top board with a hand written dedication ‘Presented to Capt John Gorley, with kindest regards from Capt, & Mrs P.A. Dithlefsen, Yokohama Japan, 20th Septbr. 1882’ with an accompanying note from a previous owner which reads , Capt. Paul Andreas Dithlefsen was a Danish born American Captain, His wife Sarah was from Rhode Island, The gift was presented in Sept 1882 while P A's licence as sea-captain was suspended for 3 months, due to his ship being wreaked on a voyage from Yokohama to Hakodate.Note: copies of some of the images from this album are held in the Harvard College Museum, object P1982.377.21, https://harvardartmuseu