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Title
Group portrait at a Hansen's Disease colony, Gotemba, 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 a group portrait at a Hansen's Disease colony in Gotemba, Japan. Four rows of people outside a building posing for the portrait. The first row of of people are kneeling on the ground. The person on the far left of the first row is covering their face with their hands. In the center of the photo is a priest with a beard.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic postcard : b&w
8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m63124 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Postcards-Japan-337
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63124
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Postcards-Japan-337.jpg
Subject
Leprosy
Indigenous peoples
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1920/1940
Place
Asia
Japan
inhabited places: Gotemba
Source
MFB/Postcards/Japan/337 [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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