Farmers chopping rice paddies for transplanting, August 8, 1947
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Seedling beds with the rice plants beginning to show through the surface of the soil which has been made smooth with a trowel or by hand. People are chopping the paddies or tamboes for the transplants which will be set out in another 2 or 3 weeks. This is about ½ mile east of the tip of Shana Wan, Okinawa."
Dates
- Creation: August 8, 1947
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Language of Materials
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