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70302-0008 - Japanese School Girls Reading Books

Okayama 1935
School Girls Reading

Artist Yusa Studio
Publisher Yusa Studio
Medium Gelatin Silver Print
Period Showa
Location Okayama
Image No. 70302-0008
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Japanese school girls reading books.

This photo comes from a year album for 1935 of a girls’ school in Okayama City, Japan. The 55 photographs show the female students studying, doing traditional Japanese as well Western sports, playing games, posing, at the train station and about town. The album also includes classroom scenes, portraits of teachers as well as administrative personnel and the Showa era wooden school building itself.

For more information about education in Japan during the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa periods, read Okayama 1935 • School Girls Eating Bento.

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Duits, Kjeld (). Okayama 1935: School Girls Reading, OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN. Retrieved on September 16, 2024 (GMT) from https://www.oldphotosjapan.com/photos/317/school-girls-reading

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