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Title
Portrait of a Tehuana in traditional dress, Mexico, ca. 1943
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1943
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
Photographic postcard of a "Tehuana" in traditional dress. In this portrait, the woman stands behind a wood railing holding a piece of embroidered cloth with her right hand and resting her left hand on a book. She wears a skirt, polka dot blouse, necklaces and a folded lace headdresss.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic postcard : b&w
14 x 8.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m63831 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Mexico-Woman-006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63831
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Mexico-Woman-006.jpg
Subject
Women
Fashion
Portraits
Time Period
circa 1943
Place
North and Central America
nation: Mexico
Source
MFB/Mexico/Woman/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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