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Collected by Alfred Ernest Dickinson, Cicely Frances Dickinson, and Enid May Dickinson in 1909

Given to the Museum in 1989

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Fan, Japan

This fan has is made of paper with a bamboo frame and handle. On one side there is a printed picture of a female servant pulling a lady in a rickshaw. On the reverse there is an advertisement in English for the Miyako Hotel in Kyoto, where the collectors of this fan stayed in 1909.

View database record 1989.44.2