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Title
Two women selling herbs, Japan, ca. 1937
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1937
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 "mountaineers - came to the church selling herbs which they picked on nearby Mount Ibuki. The arrived about noontime and the cook gave them some bread & cake - the first they had ever eaten in their lives. The old one is seventy-three - she carries that pack all day long selling her wares."
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : b&w
15 x 11.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m60208 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Japan-WomenGrps-012
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m60208
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Japan-WomenGrps-012.jpg
Subject
Women
Trade
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1937
Place
Asia
Japan
Source
MFB/Japan/WomenGrps/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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