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Town market, old man sitting in front of pile of melons
Town market, old man sitting in front of pile of melons
Object Number 2010.5.35473
Display Title Town market, old man sitting in front of pile of melons
Descriptions
Keywords
  • People and Family
  • Commercial Structure
Subject
  • Town
  • Commerce
  • Marketplace
  • Street
  • Fruit
  • Man
  • Melon
Department Photographic
Date 1927
Artist Owen Lattimore
Culture
  • Uighur
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / China / Xinjiang
Asia / Chinese Turkestan / Sinkiang
Additional Geographic Terms Shache; Yarkand
Materials Negative, nitrate
Dimensions Overall: 3.81 x 6.35 cm (1 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)

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