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Title
Miguas building a chicken coop, Mexico, ca. 1944
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1944
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
"Many of the houses here are built in this fashion (as Miguas is building the chicken coop) - just poles and thin sticks covered by a roof of palm leaf. The more enterprising wall paper the inside with pages from the Yucatan Diario." In this photograph a man builds a stick wall.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
11 x 8 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m64330 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Mexico-Buildings-010
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64330
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Mexico-Buildings-010.jpg
Subject
Housing construction
General views
Time Period
circa 1944
Place
North and Central America
nation: Mexico
Source
MFB/Mexico/Buildings/010 [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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