cover image: Porter on a rural road

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Porter on a rural road

1959

A porter poses for a photo amidst rice paddies in rural Nepal. Nepalese porters often carry over 100 pounds of goods from village market to village market. They walk barefoot over rough terrain.
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Authors

Halpern, Joel Martin

Collection
Joel M. Halpern Papers
Format
Photographs Slides (photographs)
Pages
1 slide ; 5 x 5 cm.
Place Discussed
Nepal
Provider
Digital Commonwealth
Published in
Nepal
Reference
Local other: mufs001-np-i0152
Rights
Contact host institution for more information. All rights for this image are held by Joel M. Halpern. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/dbe4bb76233602fc1486fe53b49b5a62