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Photograph taken by Gertrude Bell in South Korea, May 1903

Description

Korean men and women in street. "They wear the most absurd costume ever invented by man. They dress in long white cotton coats, which it takes all the labour of their many womenkind to keep clean, white trousers, white and shapeless socks and straw shoes - no protection at all, you observe against any kind of weather. There

Reference code
GB/3/2/4/20
Creator
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Creation Date
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Photograph Album Caption by Gertrude Bell
East Street
Former reference
RTW 5_020
Photograph album
Location
IIIF Manifest
https://collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/iiif/info/p21051coll153/5563/manifest.json