This Chinese woman does a thriving business in selling cigarette butts to the poor of Kunming.
- Date
- 1944-10-18
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 2,342 × 3,000 pixels
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