The Mystery of Cleopatra Exhibition - Paris

The Mystery of Cleopatra Exhibition - Paris

The Mystery of Cleopatra Exhibition From June 11, 2025 to January 11, 2026. Of the great female figures in history, Cleopatra, the last ruler of Egypt, is the most popular. A dark legend and then a universal figure have been forged around her, associating passion and death, sensuality and cruelty, wealth and war, politics and feminism. At the Arab World Institute in Paris, France on October 7, 2025. Jean André Rixens (1846-1925), La Mort de Cléopâtre, 1874. Photo by Marie Hubert Psaila/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Nantes - France

Illustration - Nantes - France

FRANCE - LOIRE ATLANTIQUE (44) - NANTES - NEXT TO THE STARRED RESTAURANT L'ATLANTIDE 1874 (CHEF JEAN YVES GUEHO, CENTER), INSTALLATION OF A GARDEN OF EXCELLENCE IMAGINED BY OLIVIER DURAND (LEFT) AND JULIEN LAGRANGE (RIGHT). Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

People celebrate the 150th anniversary of the launch of the first railway in the Kansai western Japan region during a ceremony at JR Kobe Station in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 11, 2024. The first railway in the region was operated between Osaka and Kobe in 1874.(Kyodo)

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

People celebrate the 150th anniversary of the launch of the first railway in the Kansai western Japan region during a ceremony at JR Kobe Station in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 11, 2024. The first railway in the region was operated between Osaka and Kobe in 1874.

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

A special train prepares to depart JR Kobe Station during a ceremony celebrating the 150th anniversary of the launch of the first railway in the Kansai western Japan on May 11, 2024. The first railway in the region was operated between Osaka and Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in 1874.

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

Posters celebrating the 150th anniversary of the launch of the first railway in the Kansai western Japan region are hung in a special train at JR Kobe Station in Hyogo Prefecture on May 11, 2024. The first railway in the region was operated between Osaka and Kobe in 1874.

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

Photo taken May 11, 2024, shows a special train at JR Kobe Station in Hyogo Prefecture bearing an emblem marking the 150th anniversary of the launch of the first railway in the Kansai western Japan region. The first railway in the region was operated between Osaka and Kobe in 1874.

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

People celebrate the 150th anniversary of the launch of the first railway in the Kansai western Japan region during a ceremony at JR Osaka Station in Osaka on May 11, 2024. The first railway in the region was operated between Osaka and Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in 1874.

Sangaste castle

Sangaste castle

Lossiküla, 02.05.2024. Sangaste castle and park were fashioned after the famous Windsor castle in England. Construction took 7 years, from 1874 to 1881. The castle originally had 99 rooms. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

Sangaste castle

Sangaste castle

Lossiküla, 02.05.2024. Sangaste castle and park were fashioned after the famous Windsor castle in England. Construction took 7 years, from 1874 to 1881. The castle originally had 99 rooms. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

Sangaste castle

Sangaste castle

Lossiküla, 02.05.2024. Sangaste castle and park were fashioned after the famous Windsor castle in England. Construction took 7 years, from 1874 to 1881. The castle originally had 99 rooms. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

Sangaste castle

Sangaste castle

Lossiküla, 02.05.2024. Sangaste castle and park were fashioned after the famous Windsor castle in England. Construction took 7 years, from 1874 to 1881. The castle originally had 99 rooms. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

Sangaste castle

Sangaste castle

Lossiküla, 02.05.2024. Sangaste castle and park were fashioned after the famous Windsor castle in England. Construction took 7 years, from 1874 to 1881. The castle originally had 99 rooms. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

Sangaste castle

Sangaste castle

Lossiküla, 02.05.2024. Sangaste castle and park were fashioned after the famous Windsor castle in England. Construction took 7 years, from 1874 to 1881. The castle originally had 99 rooms. Photo Arvo Meeks, Lõuna-Eesti Postimees

Swiss elevator manufacturer optimistic about China's economic outlook

STORY: Swiss elevator manufacturer optimistic about China's economic outlook DATELINE: March 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: GENEVA, Switzerland CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): MARTINA FUCHS, Xinhua reporter 2. SOUNDBITE (English): SILVIO NAPOLI, CEO, Schindler Group 3. various of Schindler STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): MARTINA FUCHS, Xinhua reporter "The elevators, escalators, and moving walks of Swiss company Schindler transport more than 1.5 billion people up and down buildings and across transportation hubs every day. Here at the headquarters of the company founded in 1874, I speak to the CEO about his market outlook and how China is lifting up the business." SOUNDBITE (English): SILVIO NAPOLI, CEO, Schindler Group "The outlook for the year is one of positive caution. The markets are recovering in some parts of the world. But overall, the market combined with our measures makes us for a cautiously optimistic outlook. China is our second largest R&D center, one that I was very

Momoiro Clover Z performs on 'Day of Koban'

Momoiro Clover Z performs on 'Day of Koban'

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Japanese idol group Momoiro Clover Z perform with accompaniment from the band of the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2015. The MPD has designated Aug. 25 as the "Day of Koban" as the first koban or police box was decided to be placed in Tokyo on the day of 1874.

'Police Box Day' observed on 140th anniversary of launch

'Police Box Day' observed on 140th anniversary of launch

TOKYO, Japan - Former police sergeant Takeshi Nakamura salutes in front of what was once Tokyo's oldest "koban" or police box on Aug. 11, 2014. The Metropolitan Police Department designated Aug. 25 as "Police Box Day" to commemorate the 140-year history of the koban system launched in 1874.

140-year-old bookstore to be reopened in Kumamoto

140-year-old bookstore to be reopened in Kumamoto

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Retro-looking Nagasaki Jiro Bookstore in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, shown in this photo taken on July 16, 2014, will be reopened on July 31 for the first time in 15 months. Renowned Meiji era (1868-19120) Japanese novelists Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki used to visit the store, which first opened in 1874.

Meiji-Mura halts operations of aging locomotives, trams

Meiji-Mura halts operations of aging locomotives, trams

NAGOYA, Japan - A steam locomotive makes its way on a track at Museum Meiji-Mura in the city of Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2010. The museum indefinitely suspended operations of its aging steam locomotives, which were imported to Japan in 1874 and 1912, for maintenance after their last runs on Dec. 19.

Rosalind Stanley and sister Kate Stanley

Rosalind Stanley and sister Kate Stanley

Portrait of Rosalind Stanley (1845 - 1921) and her sister Kate Stanley (1846 - 1874). Painting by Edwin Long (1829 - 1891) Date: circa 1865

Rehearsal of Noh play written by famed haiku poet

Rehearsal of Noh play written by famed haiku poet

Photo taken April 5, 2016, in Kyoto shows the rehearsal of a Noh play written by famed haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi (1874-1959). The play, based on Takahama's experience of losing his daughter, will be performed in June in the ancient city for the first time in 100 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rehearsal of Noh play written by famed haiku poet

Rehearsal of Noh play written by famed haiku poet

Photo taken April 5, 2016, in Kyoto shows the rehearsal of a Noh play written by famed haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi (1874-1959). The play, based on Takahama's experience of losing his daughter, will be performed in June in the ancient city for the first time in 100 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Imperial banquet menus to get public showing

Imperial banquet menus to get public showing

Undated photo shows the late former imperial head chef Tokuzo Akiyama. The public will be granted access in the fall of 2015 to his collection of about 1,200 menus from banquets at the Imperial Palace from 1874 to 1964, sources familiar with the matter said on March 16, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Imperial banquet menus to get public showing

Imperial banquet menus to get public showing

Photo taken Feb. 26, 2015, shows chronologically organized albums containing some of the 1,200 menus from banquets at the Imperial Palace from 1874 to 1964 collected by the late former imperial head chef Tokuzo Akiyama. The public will be granted access to the menus in the fall of 2015, sources familiar with the matter said on March 16, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Miyanoshita naraya inn

Miyanoshita naraya inn

A Japanese building of the Naraya Hotel in Miyanoshita. This coincides with the information book of the seven spas. It was destroyed in the fire of 1884. This is an important photo because few pictures taken before that time remain. Emperor Meiji stayed at this hotel in 1874.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐43‐0]

Shijo Ohashi Bridge over the Kamo River

Shijo Ohashi Bridge over the Kamo River

View of Shijo-Ohashi Bridge from across the Kamogawa River, facing west. The iron bridge was built in 1874 and has round lights on its parapets. Yaomasa Restaurant is located on the north side of the west end of the bridge. In the middle of the bridge is a Western-style temporary arch and a sign that says Sanshisuimei (an expression to describe the beauty of the mountains and water) . Women holding parasols walk across the bridge. Taken in 1904.==Date:1904, Place:Kyoto, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐45‐0]

A fire brigate getting together in front of the fire tower

A fire brigate getting together in front of the fire tower

Police firefighters gathered at Kajibashi in front of the fire watch tower. It was the duty of the police headquarters fire department to fight fires. When it was established in the Meiji Period, the Fire Department assumed control over the 48 groups of firefighters in the city, and these came under police management when the Police Headquarters was established in 1874. All the people, some of them on the watchtower and the roof, can be made out. Because of the nature of their job, these firefighters could pose anywhere. This is probably January 4, 1875, the day of the first inauguration ceremony.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐16‐0]

Miyanoshita Spa

Miyanoshita Spa

The building on the far left is Fujiya Hotel at the time of their grand opening. It was built in 1878 and was standing until December, 1883 when it was lost in a fire. The building to the right is Naraya Ryokan (inn) which was rebuilt after a fire of 1874. This photo is probably taken around the same time as that of catalogue #3313.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Usui Shuzaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number94‐43‐0]

A leisure boat on the Sumida River

A leisure boat on the Sumida River

This same photograph was carried in a special issue of Asahi Graph published by Tokyo Asahi Newspaper in 1925 to commemorate the centennial of photography in Japan, under the heading Boat Outing on Tokyo Sumida River with Uchida Kuichi around 1874. The caption says that the man leaning on the railing in the centre is Uchida Kuichi and that the photograph belongs to Hirata Kenichi. The fashion-conscious Uchida usually wore Western-style clothes in photographs, so this is a rare shot of him wearing a kimono.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number94‐20‐0]

Mt. Suwa,Kobe

Mt. Suwa,Kobe

Rokko Mountain Range and Mt. Suwa seen from the south. Present-day Chuo Ward. The park on the right is the residence of Kodera Yasujiro (present-day Sorakuen). The building on the hillside is the restaurant Tokiwaro. A group of French scientists succeeded in observing the Venus eclipse of the sun in 1874 from the area above. A commemorative monument was later erected, and the site came to be referred to as Kinseidai (Venus Hill).==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number79‐10‐0]

Children playing in a small schoolyard

Children playing in a small schoolyard

The national school system began in 1872. In those days there were nearly 3,000 terakoya (old style temple schools) in Shinshu (Nagano Prefecture) educating commoners. These temple schools were instrumental in the spread of modern education. Although modern school buildings were built after 1874, Buddhist temples were still being used as schools even in 1904 when this photograph was taken.==Date:1904, Place:Karuizawa, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐63‐0]

Honmachi-dori Avenue,Yokohama

Honmachi-dori Avenue,Yokohama

The neighbourhood of Honmachi 1-chome. The building on the left is the Yokohama Town Meeting Hall designed by American architect R. P. Bridgens and completed in 1874. This building and its clock tower were landmarks on Honmachi Dori but burned to the ground in 1906. The site is now the Yokohama Archives of History Memorial Hall.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number78‐1‐0]

Suwa Park

Suwa Park

Suwa Park was established next to Suwa Shinto Shrine in 1874 for the people of Nagasaki and foreign visitors. The park included a pond and fountain. Geiko in kimono pose on the stone bridge over the pond around 1887.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number75‐11‐0]

Miyanoshita Spa

Miyanoshita Spa

The building on the far left is Fujiya Hotel at the time of its grand opening. It was built in 1878 and was standing until December, 1883 when it was destroyed in a fire. The building to the right is Naraya Ryokan (inn) which was rebuilt after a fire in 1874. The road where a worker stands is the old Seven Hot Spring Road.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Usui Shuzaburo?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number65‐4‐0]

The Horiwari River,Yokohama

The Horiwari River,Yokohama

The Horiwari Waterway, connecting the Nakamura River with Takito, was completed in 1874. It made river boat traffic on the Nakamura River, O'oka River and Yoshida River possible in addition to providing mud to fill in Yoshida Shinden The building on the left could be an oil storeroom.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐68‐0]

Nanataki Falls in Mifune

Nanataki Falls in Mifune

Nanataki Falls in Mifune==Date:about 1874, Place:Kumamoto, Photo:Tomishige Rihei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

The Oura foreign settlement and Dejima seen from Minamiyamate

The Oura foreign settlement and Dejima seen from Minamiyamate

This photo was taken from the slope beneath Glover Garden. The right center building is the Belle Vue Hotel, which had stood there since the Bakumatsu period. The porch at the entrance had been added later. The Oura settlement is crowded with western style buildings, trees stood in the middle of the coastal street, and a new one-story building has been built in front of the Custom House at the end of the street. Around 1874～1875.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number58‐9‐0]

The approach to Ikuta Shrine

The approach to Ikuta Shrine

The approach to Ikuta Shinto Shrine taken around the turn of the 20th century. Formerly referred to as Ikuta-no-Baba, this was a scenic path lined with plum and cherry trees and stretching for about 870 meters from the shrine to the beach. After the opening of Kobe port in 1868, a foreign settlement was established along the coast, but a railroad line was constructed here in 1874 and the northern area depicted here remained.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number56‐26‐0]

A view of the coast at Otaru

A view of the coast at Otaru

The first volume of History of Otaru City (published in 1958) carried this photograph along with the caption: Ainu people in the area of Tateiwa around 1874.==Date:unknown, Place:Otaru, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐45‐0]

Yasukuni Shrine,Kudan

Yasukuni Shrine,Kudan

Shokonsha Shrine (Shrine to Invite Spirits) was built in 1869 as a dedication to the spirits of the samurai who died in the Boshin War. The soldiers who died in the Saga Rebellion and Taiwan Expedition of 1874 and the Seinan War of 1877 were also enshrined here. In 1879 the shrine was renamed Bekkaku Kanpeisha Yasukuni Shinto Shrine. The words bekkaku kanpeisha mean that the men enshrined here made special contributions to their country. Taken between 1887 and 1897.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐73‐0]

Honmachi-dori Avenue,Yokohama

Honmachi-dori Avenue,Yokohama

A photo of the snow scene in Motomachi of Yokohama. The clock tower is that of the Yokohama city office (built in 1874), and the building to the right in the fore is the postal and telecommunications office where the Yokohama city office comes later.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number43‐24‐0]

Iron bridge over Kanzaki River

Iron bridge over Kanzaki River

The Kanzaki River is a division of the Yodo River lower stream, and is a border between Hyogo and Osaka prefectures. The photo is that of the Tokaido main line (opened temporarily in May, 1874), and the Bukogawa Steel Bridge. The construction was by Darlington Co. of England.==Date:unknown, Place:Osaka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number37‐90‐0]

Kumamoto Castle

Kumamoto Castle

This picture was taken in the early years of the Meiji era. With the existence of the Kato Kiyomasa Shrine, the date of the photo can be estimated. The building of the shrine built in 1871 was moved to the Kyomachidai in 1874. It is a picture very similar to the pictures numbered 12-2 and 16-34.==Date:unknown, Place:Kumamoto, Photo:Uchida Kuichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number26‐11‐0]

Yokohama Post Office

Yokohama Post Office

The postal and telecommunications station at Yokohama. It was designed by Sadate Nanajiro in 1889 and made of brick. The clock tower to the rear is the Yokohama City Office designed by R.P.Bridgens and completed in 1874.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number20‐10‐0]

Honmachi-dori Avenue,Yokohama

Honmachi-dori Avenue,Yokohama

The caption reads Yokohama, main street in English. Consulates, the prefectural office, post and telegram office, silk inspection office, and court houses lined the street in Honmachi. The clock tower in the photo is the Yokohama City Hall designed by R.P.Bridgens in 1874.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number6‐16‐0]

Owaku-dani Valley

Owaku-dani Valley

Owakudani used to be called Ojigoku (meaning great hell), but on the occasion of the visit of the Emperor Meiji in 1874, it was renamed Owakudani to avoid the name of hell. So, this photo was taken after 1874. The mountain to the left is the highest mountain in Hakone, Kamiyama.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐13‐0]

Rows of ceddars and teahouse at shiba park

Rows of ceddars and teahouse at shiba park

This is one of the oldest parks in Japan designated by the Dajokan Order of 1874. It used to include the premises of Zojoji Temple until the separation of religion and politics after the war. The tea houses were places for worshippers to relax.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number4‐7‐0]

Momoiro Clover Z performs on 'Day of Koban'

Momoiro Clover Z performs on 'Day of Koban'

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Japanese idol group Momoiro Clover Z perform with accompaniment from the band of the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2015. The MPD has designated Aug. 25 as the "Day of Koban" as the first koban or police box was decided to be placed in Tokyo on the day of 1874. (Kyodo)

140-year-old bookstore to be reopened in Kumamoto

140-year-old bookstore to be reopened in Kumamoto

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Retro-looking Nagasaki Jiro Bookstore in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, shown in this photo taken on July 16, 2014, will be reopened on July 31 for the first time in 15 months. Renowned Meiji era (1868-19120) Japanese novelists Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki used to visit the store, which first opened in 1874. (Kyodo)

Meiji-Mura halts operations of aging locomotives, trams

Meiji-Mura halts operations of aging locomotives, trams

NAGOYA, Japan - A steam locomotive makes its way on a track at Museum Meiji-Mura in the city of Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2010. The museum indefinitely suspended operations of its aging steam locomotives, which were imported to Japan in 1874 and 1912, for maintenance after their last runs on Dec. 19. (Kyodo)