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Title: Autumn leaves in the Kaian-ji Temple/ 海案寺紅葉
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II/ 二代目歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画); Utagawa Kunisada/ 歌川国貞 (Signature: kio Toyokuni ga/ 喜翁豊国筆)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A mother and child at the center of the image enjoy the bright autumn colors along with another set of visitors farther back to their left. In the background framed by the orange trees is a watery vista with the white sails of ships of the horizon. Kaian-ji temple was a Soto sect temple built in Shinagawa, the foremost stop of the Tokaido road. It was very famous for it's autumn colors and attracted many visitors especially in the tenth month of the lunar year, which was called Kana-zuki (The month where the gods are absent.) It was thought in this month hat all the gods had left to go to Izumo grand shrine in the west so there was few festival in Edo during this time.
Series: Thirty-six Scenes of the Pride of Edo/ 江戸自慢三十六輿 (Edo jiman sanjūrokkyō)
Subject: Mother and child -- Japan -- Art; Autumn -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U7_E42_0034
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100989

Title: The Fire tower at Akabane/ 赤はね火之見
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II/ 二代目歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画); Utagawa Kunisada/ 歌川国貞 (Signature: kio Toyokuni ga/ 喜翁豊国筆)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. A mother and child pairing, likely from a wealthy samurai family based on the young boy’s pair of swords, walk along the river side in the foreground. Across the river is a busy street with vendors and a gate into a nearby district to the far right. Beyond the wall in the upper left-hand corner and grey tower can be seen rising above the trees. This is the Fire watch tower (Hinomi) mentioned in the print's title. The fire tower was striking landmark in the area and also served an important purpose for the fire prone city of Edo.
Series: Thirty-six Scenes of the Pride of Edo/ 江戸自慢三十六輿 (Edo jiman sanjūrokkyō)
Subject: Mothers and sons -- Japan -- Art; Cities and towns -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U7_E42_0030
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100985

Title: Ikegami-Honmon-ji Temple Eshiki/ 池上本門寺会式
Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II/ 二代目歌川広重 (Signature: Hiroshige ga/ 広重画); Utagawa Kunisada/ 歌川国貞 (Signature: kio Toyokuni ga/ 喜翁豊国筆)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. In the foreground is a mother and her two children. Behind them is the approach to Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple. The temple grounds are lavishly decorated and busy with people. The crowd behind the family leads viewers eyes down the shop lined street to the stir leading up to the large temple in the upper left-hand corner of the image. The occasion is Eshiki, a Buddhist ceremony held by temples of the Nishiren sect. Honmon-ji's was particularly lavish because tit was the temple that the founder Nichiren had spent the last years of his life.
Series: Thirty-six Scenes of the Pride of Edo/ 江戸自慢三十六輿 (Edo jiman sanjūrokkyō)
Subject: Mother and child -- Japan -- Art; Temples -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U7_E42_0035
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100990

Title: Kobore-guchi
Creator: Nansuitei Yoshiyuki/ 南粋亭芳雪 (Signature: Yoshiyuki ga/ 芳雪画)
Description: Nishiki-e (Multicolored Print), ink and color on paper. Mothers and children dressed in red and purple dyed kimonos enjoy catching fireflies on a grassy riverbank in the evening. The landscape in sky are rendered in grey scale with pops of color coming from the figures, green patches of grass and the bright blue river.
Series: One Hundred Famous Views of Naniwa/ 浪花百景 (Naniwa Hyakkei)
Subject: Mother and child -- Japan -- Art; Landscapes -- Japan -- Art; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868; Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Country: Japan
Local Identifier: NE1325.U61_N3_0089
Type: woodcuts (prints)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:100940

Title: Letter from Letitia Gomez to Dora Rosales
Date: 1993-03-12
Creator: Gomez, Letitia
Description: Letter from Letitia Gomez, president of ENLACE, to Dora Rosales, mother of Ana María Rosales, offering condolences and enclosing a check with donations gathered at an event ENLACE hosted in honor of Ana María Rosales.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); Gifts; Mothers of murder victims; Lesbian activists -- Washington (D.C.); Murder victims; Latino/a/x lesbians; Hispanic LGBTQ+ people; Murders of LGBTQ+ people
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_finances_0038
Type: letters (correspondence)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98552
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Penny Jessop doing a public health lesson with a new mother in the maternity unit in Tillaberi.
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: This is a picture of me Penny Jessop doing a public health lesson with a new mother in the maternity unit in Tillaberi.
Subject: Volunteer workers in community health services--Tillabéry (Niger).; New mothers--Tillabéry (Niger).; Maternal and infant welfare--Tillabéry (Niger).
Country: Niger
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0021
Type: color photographs
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3035
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.