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Black and white photographs depicting a Japanese silk mill; landscapes of coastline, harbors, and cities; shrines; a movie theater; bombed buildings; a U.S military parade; performers and dancers at a festival; a garden and koi pond; and rural areas scenes such as fields, agricultural laborers, houses, and families preparing crops. Also includes depictions of street scenes in Japan such as a souvenir shop; a grocery stand; horse drawn carts carrying ice, straw, or people; street vendors; children playing; men smoking from kiseru pipes; women breastfeeding infants; political billboards and posters; and pedestrians at railway car stops. Photographs include Mead Smith Karras speaking at the Labor Standards for Women and Children in Industry conference, and also speaking in a classroom and to children on the street. Album includes photographs of the Great Beppu Buddha; the Peace Tower in Miyazaki, the Tokyo Post Exchange, now the Wako Clock Tower; the Imperial Palace Guard Tower; the Kamakura Daibutsu; the Uto Yagura Tower in Kumamoto; a guardian statue in the Kyoto Ninna-Ji Temple; and the Mission San Juan Capistrano in California.
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