Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1308
Description: BW print; in foreground a naked boy crouches on a tiled floor, pouring a metal basin of water over his body; a raised circular tiled bathtub equipped with a stand-pipe spigot is behind him, and two boys swim there; a water barrel is in the left background and a bar of soap and second basin rest in the right foregound; captioned "A nice hot bath in the tiled bathroom awaits Kunmoin pupils at the end of each happy day of study and play."; stamped "East-West Photographic Agency, Photograph by Horace Bristol".
Medium: Photographic Paper
Photographer: Horace Bristol
History/Provenance: Tokyo School for the Blind (Kunmoin) opened in 1880 at Tsukiji in Tokyo. Horace Bristol (19081997) was an American photographer, best known for his work in Life, Time, Fortune, Sunset, and National Geographic magazines. After WWII he moved to Tokyo and created the East West Photographic Agency to document post war Japan.
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Bathhouses Bathing Blind children Japan Schools for the blind and visually impaired
