Tom Burnett Collection

The Tom Burnett Collection of vintage Japanese photographs consists of several thousand images.  These images are contained in albums, stereoviews, cdv's, and single photographs, all from 1859 until the early 1900's.  For further information about the Tom Burnett Collection, please contact Tom Burnett at tburnett@verizon.net. Images from the collection have been shown at the following exhibitions:

2017

Images from the Stereoviews by Pierre Rossier in Japan at the Conference held at the Maison Franco-Japonaise and the Tokyo Photography Art Musuem in Japan. 

2014

Stereoview images from Pierre Rossier’s First and Second Series of Japan for the “Imagine Japan” exhibition at the Musee d’ethnographie de Neuchatel, Switzerland.  http://www.men.ch/fr/expositions/anciennes-expositions/black-box-depuis-1981/imagine-japan/

2012 

Photographs from early Meiji era lent to “Reinventing Tokyo” Exhibition at the Mead Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.

https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/exhibitions/2012/tokyo

2011

Felice Beato: Photographer in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Curated By Eleanor M. Hight
Selections from the Tom Burnett Collection
October 29 - December 12, 2011
http://www.unh.edu/moa/upcoming.html

2010

Museum of the City of New York 
"Samurai in New York"
November 2010

Please see selected images from the Tom Burnett Collection featured in the "Samurai in New York: The First Japanese Delegation, 1860" at the Museum of the City of New York Jun 25 through Nov 7 2010.

http://www.mcny.org/exhibitions/past/Samurai-in-New-York.html

This exhibition was organized along with the Consulate General of Japan in New York as part of "Japan-NYC 1860-2010: A Heritage of Friendship
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the First Japanese Delegation to New York City"

http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/150JapanNY/en/index.html

Images from this event can also be found on the Consulate's website:

http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/150JapanNY/en/photo.html