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Title: A woman washing clothes in the river in China, 1945
Creator: Elliott, Fr
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945-09-07
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: This is a photograph of a woman doing her laundry in a river. She is wringing out the clothes and putting them in a basket that she will carry home and hang to dry. The city is unknown.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints 11.5 x 8.8 cm.
Identifier: impa-m6929 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-022-10-0009
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m6929
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-022-10-0009.jpg
Subject: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Women
Domestic workers
General views
Time Period: 1945-09-07
Place: China
Source: MKL/China/022/10/0009 [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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