E. A. Sargent

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E. A. Sargent was a partner with Adolfo Farsari in the Yokohama-based firm of Sargent, Farsari & Co., which dealt in smokers' supplies, stationery, visiting cards, newspapers, magazines and novels, Japanese and English conversation books, dictionaries, guidebooks, maps, and photographic views of Japan. Sargent, Farsari & Co. operated in the 1870s.

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  • Dobson, Sebastian. "Yokohama Shashin". In Art & Artifice: Japanese Photographs of the Meiji Era – Selections from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston: MFA Publications, 2004), 15-28, 37.