1936 Print Kanegafuchi Dormitory Kimono Japanese Girls Tokyo Textile Mill FZ2 XGX6 Keywords specific to this image:

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Please note the surface damage located in the right portion of this engraving

National Cotton Show

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Chemistry in 1932 and Ivar Giaever

1936 Print Kanegafuchi Dormitory Kimono Japanese Girls Tokyo Textile Mill FZ2 XGX6 Keywords specific to this image:This is an original 1936 halftone print of girls at a boarding school in a textile mill in Japan. Seen is the dormitory room at the Kanegafuchi factory, which we are assuming is located in Tokyo. Japanese farmer's daughters would usually come to boarding schools like this at the age of twelve or thirteen, and could eat lunch for 4 and a half cents. The caption writes, "Each mat is a bedstead. Fifteen floor mats: ten girls."CONDITION This 75+ year old