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William Heine, 1827-1885 (artist) and P. S. Duval & Co. (lithographers) based on a daguerreotype by Eliphalet Brown, Jr. (1816-1886)

“Afternoon Gossip, Lew Chew”

lithograph, 1856

The text accompanying this lithograph notes disapprovingly that the men of Lew Chew (now Okinawa) enjoy afternoons filled with pipe-smoking, sipping tea and gossiping … while the women toil away at back-breaking work in the fields.

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