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Title: Japanese man embroidering a piece of silk, Japan, ca. 1920-1940
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920/1940
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 Japanese man embroidering a piece of silk. The silk is stretched on a wood frame. The embroidery threads are stacked at the far end of the frame.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w
10 x 15 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m59607 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Japan-Men-020
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m59607
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Japan-Men-020.jpg
Subject: Textile arts
Embroidering
General views
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Asia
Japan
Source: MFB/Japan/Men/020 [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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