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Title
Emptying a fishing net, Hikone, Japan, ca. 1937
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1937
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description
Photograph of a "fishing scene in Hikone - The men drive the fish into the net with their long poles. The fish are shipped to all parts of Japan to stock lakes and ponds." In the center of the photo, a man wearing a knit hat empties a net into a wooden bucket as two men watch. To the right, a line of five men continue fishing.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
12.5 x 15.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m60305 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Japan-Hikone-006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m60305
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Japan-Hikone-006.jpg
Subject
Fishing industry
General views
Time Period
circa 1937
Place
Asia
Japan
inhabited places: Hikone
Source
MFB/Japan/Hikone/006 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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