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["720 MP's in / background. / Tokyo's MP's"]

["720 MP's in / background. / Tokyo's MP's"]

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["720 MP's in / background. / Tokyo's MP's"]
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  • ["720 MP's in / background. / Tokyo's MP's"]
Date1940s
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 2 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (5.4 × 7.9 cm)
 Sheet: 2 5/16 × 3 5/16 in. (5.9 × 8.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Peter J. Cohen
Object number2014.340
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenancePeter J. Cohen, New York; given to MFAH, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso in ink: 70[crossed through] 720 MP's in / background. / Tokyo's MP's

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