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Title
Street view of the sixth department Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, ca. 1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920/1940
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 "the bustle in the six department, Asakusa," in Tokyo, Japan. Two story buildings line both sides of the steet. People are walking in both directions down the middle of the street. Long poles with flags hanging on them are attached to the building on both sides. There is a man walking down the street toward the bottom with a bicycle.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic postcard : b&w
8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m63665 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Postcards-Japan-470
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63665
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Postcards-Japan-470.jpg
Subject
Urban areas
Pedestrian streets
Groups of people
General views
Time Period
circa 1920/1940
Place
Asia
Japan
inhabited places: Tokyo
Source
MFB/Postcards/Japan/470 [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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