[Vietnam: Three women carrying goods in foregrd. on street; others in backgrd.] – Antique Photo Print
![[Vietnam: Three women carrying goods in foregrd. on street; others in backgrd.], [between 1950 and 1951] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/66/6618e17179d3-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Vietnam: Three women carrying goods in foregrd. on street; others in backgrd.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Vietnam: Three women carrying goods in foregrd. on street; others in backgrd.]
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Three women carrying goods in the foreground anchor this view of a street, with other figures moving through the background. The caption card identifies the subject as street vendors, a familiar sight in Vietnamese towns, where traders carried produce and wares on foot or on shoulder poles. The print was issued under the name Quoc-Gia Viet-Nam, used by the State of Vietnam government in the early 1950s, when the country was still caught up in its war with France. The date is unverified, so the scene is best read as a glimpse of everyday commerce.
| Created / published | [between 1950 and 1951] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Quoc-Gia Viet-Nam. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Street vendors. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,045 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157877 |
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