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Call Number:

PH-00252

Collection Name:

China / Japan during World War II Photography Collection

No. of Items:

12 items

Span Dates:

circa 1940

Description:

The collection consists of twelve prints taken in Japan and China during World War II. Subjects include architecture, children, classrooms, memorials, and soldiers. The collection also contains a list of the dimensions of the images and translation of their captions. The photographer(s) is unknown.

989:0009:0001 -- Children placing flowers before monuments;
989:0009:0002 -- Unidentified soldier with camouflage and bayonet;
989:0009:0003 -- Mount Fuji shrouded in clouds, 1939;
989:0009:0004 -- Opening ceremony for a war memorial tower;
989:0009:0005 -- Merchant in the street;
989:0009:0006 -- Display of carved wood and basketwork;
989:0009:0007 -- Young men performing an Igorosoto dance;
989:0009:0008 -- Students in Manchuria;
989:0009:0009 -- Missionary School;
989:0009:0010 -- Study of Hands;
989:0009:0011 -- Sparrow nestling on a sculpture representing a soldier who has an infant cradled in his arms;
989:0009:0012 -- Eastern Japanese troop bugler.

Accession No(s):

989:0009:0001-0012; Gift of Mrs. M. H. Theilman, 1989 (G 8135).

Location(s):

Discrete Collections Box 3 (989:0009:0001-0012)
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