Calendar

Museum number:
9-21363
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090021363
Alternate number:
X III 8 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4697
Description:
Twenty-four vignettes of agricultural activity on 1976 calendar of the magazine “China Reconstructs”. e.g. top row, left: the mechanic; fourth from left: planting rice seedlings; right: sowing pumpkin seeds. row 2, left: hoeing and chemical spraying; right: turnip planting. row 3, left: thinning; fourth from left: harvesting; right: grinding corn. row 4, third from left: the miner; right: the agent buys the crop. 22.5 x 30 cm
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
Massachusetts
Verbatim coll. place:
Purchased by Ilse Fang in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Chinese Bookstore.
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection date:
1976
Materials:
Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Calendars (documents)
Function:
7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
Accession date:
December 15, 1998
Context of use:
1976 Calendar.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 22.5 centimeters and height 30 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Calendar, accession number 9-21363, described as Twenty-four vignettes of agricultural activity on 1976 calendar of the magazine “China Reconstructs”. e.g. top row, left: the mechanic; fourth from left: planting rice seedlings; right: sowing pumpkin seeds. row 2, left: hoeing and chemical spraying; right: turnip planting. row 3, left: thinning; fourth from left: harvesting; right: grinding corn. row 4, third from left: the miner; right: the agent buys the crop. 22.5 x 30 cmHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Calendar, accession number 9-21363, described as Twenty-four vignettes of agricultural activity on 1976 calendar of the magazine “China Reconstructs”. e.g. top row, left: the mechanic; fourth from left: planting rice seedlings; right: sowing pumpkin seeds. row 2, left: hoeing and chemical spraying; right: turnip planting. row 3, left: thinning; fourth from left: harvesting; right: grinding corn. row 4, third from left: the miner; right: the agent buys the crop. 22.5 x 30 cm

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