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Title
Retired farmers making chicken coops, Kosai, Korea, May 1940
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1940-05
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 "Farming in Chosen - While all strong hands are busy in the fields these two retired farmers take it easy at home making useful things with last year's corn, wheat & rice stalks. Here, these two oldsters are making a cosy coop for newly hatched chicks. From such straw are made shoes, bags, raincoats, thatched roofs, baskets, dustpans, brooms, etc, etc. Kosai, May 1940"
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
12 x 16 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m15699 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-Korea-003-06-003
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15699
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-Korea-003-06-003.jpg
Subject
Men
Elderly
Workers
General views
Time Period
1940-05
Place
Asia
Korea
Kosai
Source
MKL/Korea/003/06/003 [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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