![Students at the Peking Jiyu Gakuen School write letters at their desks.](https://modscotcast01.blob.core.windows.net/cotca/2018/09/TNA-0010-900x617.jpg)
Description
Students at the Peking Jiyu Gakuen School write letters at their desks.
Writing letters to their parents
From a collection of staged photographs produced under the title “Life at a Girls School in Peking”, and produced at the Peking Jiyu Gakuen in Japanese-occupied Beijing. The original caption reads: “Writing letters to their parents describing their happy days at school”.
Date
- circa 1940
Artist/Creator
Anon (possibly Horino Masao 堀野正雄)
Medium
-
Photograph
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Theme
- Return to the capital
Case Studies
-
Japanese-occupied China
(1937 – 1945) Keywords
- children, education, schools, women
Further information
Source
Source Reference Details
CN 11/11
Permissions/Acknowledgements
The National Archives
COTCA Identifier
TNA-0010
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