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Title
Portrait of a mother and child in peasant clothes making their way around a street corner in China, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photographic portrait of a mother and child in peasant clothes making their way around a street corner in China, ca.1900. The mother is pictured at center, moving left, dressed in aprons, pants and a tunic. She holds her child swaddled in her arms and faces the viewer with her head with her body turned away. Behind her, a tall door and brick facade of a building can be seen.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negative, photographic print, b&w
9 x 10 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30583
USC-1-1-1-14111 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12266
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30583
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12266.jpg
Subject
China
City and town life
Children
Chinese
Women
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
China
Source
1-222- [Microfiche number]
12266 [Accession number]
CHS-12266; unid-208 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 208 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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