Card Advertising Marsh's Japanese Village and Tea Garden California Midwinter International Exposition
[Japan] Scarce, double-sided card promoting the Japanese Village and Tea Garden that was held as part of the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 in San Francisco. The Japanese Village was the brainchild of Australian, George Turner Marsh (1857-1932), who lived in Japan in the 1870s as a young man and apparently first worked for a tea import/export firm and auction house in Yokohama. Later he opened, "G.T. Marsh and Company: Japanese Art Repository" in San Francisco buying and selling antiques, art and textiles. The photographic image on the rear of the card shows a scene in the garden, '....constructed entirely by Japanese artisans pronounced by all the gem of the fair.'
13.3 x 8.6cm.
In very good condition with only minor age wear and a few minor marks. e35031361
