VERY RARE CDV Photo Samurai + First Japanese MIT Student SIGNED Antique Japan maritime It doesn't click closed but

It doesn't click closed but the hardware looks intact and fine

The albums are nice quality albums though the pages of the smaller one are falling out and the larger brown album is missing one clasp

but this guy might have been a backdrop painter as well

Cabinet card is overall VG antique condition

the top-right area is dark

VERY RARE CDV Photo Samurai + First Japanese MIT Student SIGNED Antique Japan maritime It doesn't click closed butVery rare and original CDV format photograph of Kuroda Nagatamo (1838 1902), signed to Miss Lewis on the back and dated 1874. Photographed by Allen & Rowell of Boston. Kuroda was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who served as the last daimy of Fukuoka han, a Japanese domain of the Edo period. Nagatomo Kuroda, along with fellow samurai Takuma Dan, and Kentar Kaneko, on orders of their samurai lord, arrived in Massachusetts from Fukuoka, Japan