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Title
Women assembling hammocks, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, ca. 1946
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1946
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 seven women assembling hammocks. The group stands outdoors in an arcaded courtyard. Each woman works on a hammock strung on a wood frame. In the foreground, a woman wearing a traditional dress lays in a completed hammock.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m64134 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Mexico-Women-011
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64134
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Mexico-Women-011.jpg
Subject
Women
Workers
General views
Time Period
circa 1946
Place
North and Central America
Yucatan
inhabited place: Merida
nation: Mexico
Source
MFB/Mexico/Women/011 [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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