Jun Fujita Portfolio of Highland Park Home, Mounted Photographs of Home Interior, in a brief case style folio.  Twenty-four images of a stylish home interior of circa 1935-1940, each signed to the lower right corner in graphite, "Jun Fujita." 

Jun Fujita was born in Nishimura, Hiroshima, Japan in 1899 and died in Chicago in 1963. He emigrated to Canada in 1906, and by 1915, lived in Chicago. He is acknowledged by many to be the first Japanese-American Photo-Journalist working in the United States. First, Fujita worked for the Chicago Evening Post, until 1929, and then for the Chicago Daily News.

As a journalist, Fujita reported on the sinking of the S.S. Eastland, the Chicago Race Riots, the trials of Leopold and Loew, and the St. Valentine's Day massacre. From the later 1930s until his death, Fujita worked at his own photography studio.

{Approximate dimensions:  Pages 20" long x 16" wide x 1 3/4" deep, folio 17 3/4" high x 22" wide x 3" deep.}.

The folio with scratches, scuffs, rubbing, wear to straps and peeling to end of buckle straps, cover page with some wear, heavy foxing, mounting boards with light wear, a few with minor foxing. The photographs in very good condition. Please ask the Furniture and Decorative Arts Department for a detailed condition report on this lot.