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Title
Portrait of a Maya mestiza, Mexico, ca. 1945-1950
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1945/1950
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 a "Maya mestiza." The woman in this full-length portrait stands outdoors in front of the wire fence that separates her from the thatched roof building behind her. She wears a bow in her hair and a traditional dress with embroidery around the neckline and on the skirt. She carries a shawl over her right arm.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
8.5 x 6 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m63837 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Mexico-Woman-012
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63837
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Mexico-Woman-012.jpg
Subject
Women
Fashion
Portraits
Time Period
circa 1945/1950
Place
North and Central America
nation: Mexico
Source
MFB/Mexico/Woman/012 [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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