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Title: Walking rice to the market at Wuzhou, China, 1947
Creator: Tennien, Fr
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947-10
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: This is a photograph of a Chinese man carrying his rice to the market. "Where there are no carts nor roads he joins China's millions trotting to market with rice bags swinging from his shoulder pole."
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints 11.3 x 8.3 cm.
Identifier: impa-m5855 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-016-06-0009
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5855
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-016-06-0009.jpg
Subject: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Transport
Agricultural products
General views
Time Period: 1947-10
Place: China
Wuchow
Source: MKL/China/016/06/0009 [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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