Vintage albumen print with hand-coloring (circa 1880)
 The quality and preservation of the colours are exceptional.
 Young carpenters working on a construction site under the supervision of the foreman.
 Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1934) was a colorist and assistant to Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Von Stillfried before opening his own studio in Yokohama in 1881.
 Around 1885, he bought back the negatives of Beato and Stillfried. Kimbei immortalized numerous portraits of Japanese people at the end of the 19th century. The prints, which he hand-colored, were then sold to tourists visiting the country.