I wasn’t certain if this family was Japanese or Chinese, so I googled the hairstyles the women are wearing. I definitely saw Japanese women with this hairstyle, so that’s where I’m leaning. This photo is hand tinted with a pencil or watercolor kit. I had one as a kid and it is an art I never perfected. There is nothing to suggest to me when the photo was taken or where.
Who Were They? 
:) When you get American women’s fashion through the 1800-1900s and then the men’s fashions for the same time period all figured out – you won’t lack for more to learn – Japanese and Filipino fashions!!
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I think I will leave that department to the scholars of Eastern clothing, ha ha, and just enjoy the pictures. :-)
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I have always been interested in this coloring process..lovely photo:)
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This can be a very faded “salt print” although difficult to discern. There is a collector of old Japanese photos like this on flickr.
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Thank you for the link, those photos are fascinating and simply beautiful
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