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Accession Nr.: F.2004.661.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1908
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Materials/Techniques: hand-coloured glass slide
Dimensions: height: 8 cm
width: 8 cm
Dezső Bozóky hand-coloured glass diapositive. Photograph taken by Dezső Bozóky. Related item: A.4760.2.26.4. (photo). An old Korean man is minding two children in the street. The fence behind them bears bilingual, Korean-Japanese advertisements. The poster with the
vertical script promotes a tooth powder called Lion.