1896 Print Zusui Pottage Bashi Bridge Hashiba Shimajima Nagano Japan Love XGEB7 XANA8 ) Period Paper is pleased

) Period Paper is pleased to offer an exceptional collection of historic original halftone prints of the architecture

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This is an original 1882 black and white in-text wood engraving of a sassy little boy at the Eastertide Foire aux Jambons (Ham Fair) in Paris

This is an original 1907 black and white halftone print of the bridge that crosses the Guadalquivir River in Cordova

1896 Print Zusui Pottage Bashi Bridge Hashiba Shimajima Nagano Japan Love XGEB7 XANA8 ) Period Paper is pleasedThis is an original 1896 black and white halftone print of a bridge connecting Hashiba and Shimajima in the Nagano Prefecture of Japan called the Zosui Bashi. Translated, this is called the "Rice soup Bridge" or the "Bridge of the mess pottage." Named for a Japanese dish, that in this time was only eaten by "the poorest people," because it is built in honor of a local legend. It is said in the Hashiba area that two young lovers of were kept apart by