This image comes from the Library’s archive of the National Photo Company which, as a daily service to its subscribers, documented virtually all aspects of Washington, D.C., life during the administrations of Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. A nearly identical photograph from a series taken the same day was captioned: “Japanese bud and Japanese blossom Sumi and Sada, little daughters of the second secretary of the Japanese Embassy and Madam Teijirō Tamura, photographed today among the blossoms of cherry trees which surround the Tidal Basin.”