Old Photos etc

EDIT: Oh right, I found a small caterpillar in my salad at school today. D:
Still need to edit those mermaid Gojyo pics...which is difficult since I drew them on different sides of the same paper. Which bled through something awful. =_=;

But, in the meantime, have some picspam?
First, from Once Upon a Time - Visions of Old Japan from the Photos of Beato and Stillfried and the Words of Pierre Loti. That's all title, I think. =_=
The men who took these pictures travelled to Japan soon after it was first allowed for foreigners.
Felice Beato arrived there first in 1863, and Baron Raimund von Stillfried und Ratenitz slightly later.
The photographs are hand painted (by the artists themselves, I believe).

Worksafe? Well, there's partial nudity in two of them, thought I don't think it's particularly sexual.
EDIT: On the other hand, photobucket seems to disagree. Fine, fine, no vintage boobies then. :/
( Several largish pictures under cut )

Some of these reminded me of woodcuts, talking of which...
while we're at it, from Japanese Book Illustration by Yu-Ying Brown
These are rather more lively than those photos, which I suppose is no surprise. :)
( cut the second )