Details
Title [Full-length portrait of a Japanese woman who wears an American Airman's uniform] [graphic].
Publisher [Japan]
Date [ca. 1947]
Physical Description 1 photo : gelatin silver ; sheet x cm ( x in.)
Description Portrait photograph of a Japanese woman who is wearing the uniform of an American Airman probably in Japan during the Allied occupation after World War Two. Shows the Japanese woman, attired in a garrison cap with pins, Air Force uniform of a collared, long-sleeved shirt and pants, Air Force pin with wings, belt, and geta shoes, smiling at the viewer. She stands with her arms at her side in front of a building. The back of a chair can be seen through the window in the left.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content and attire of the people.
See related: Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30.10].
Purchased with partial funds from the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Women's History and African American History funds.
Subject United States. Air Force -- Airmen.
United States. Air Force -- Uniforms.
Cross-dressing.
Cross dressing.
Crossdressing.
Japanese.
Kimonos.
Women -- Japanese.
AAPI.
Queer history.
Women.
Geographic subject Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1940-1950.
Group portraits -- 1940-1950.
Portrait photographs -- 1940-1950.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photograph Collection Gender Non-Conforming People [P.2023.30.11]
Accession number P.2023.30.11