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Farmers planting sweet potato slips, May 16, 1948

 Item — Box: 1, item: G-131

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Area of Awase clay, Alluvial soil from Regosols, and some limestone float along the coast just north of Yonabaru, Okinawa with people putting out sweet potato slips in the tilled patches after the recent rain. Ships off shore are left from the typhoon of October 1945. This is a duplicate slide; the original was filed unmounted and unnumbered."

Dates

  • Creation: May 16, 1948

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Language of Materials

English