Name
Tibet Information Network (Collector)
Title
Signboard Outside Tibet Autonomus Region People's Defence Office, Depicting Written and Illustrated Instructions for Proper Usage of Gas Masks, as an Unmasked Tibetan Woman Sits Underneath Working on a Sewing Machine, Lhasa, 1993
Abstract
Photograph of a signboard outside the TAR People's Defence Office, depicting written (in Tibetan and Chinese) and illustrated instructions for the required and proper usage of gas masks, as an unmasked Tibetan woman sits underneath working on a sewing machine.
Collection Name
Tibet Information Network (TIN) Archive
Subjects
Signs and signboards; Safety regulations; Tibetans; Lhasa (China)
Format
photographs
Genre
Documentary photographs
Date
September 1993
Physical Description
10.2 x 15 cm
Note
Annotation on back: PROPOGANDA; Photograph no. P-RPHL-1 (f); main writing: Every person must be aware of these points about (personal) defence. Poster Lhasa Sept 93. 1. Check the gas mask 2. Change when necessary 3. Don't smoke 4. Move to a different place 5. Disinfect everything Right: TAR People's Defence Office [See Signboard Near Telecommunications Building Depicting Written and Illustrated Instructions for Proper Usage of Gas Masks, Lhasa, 1994]
Language
English; Tibetan; Chinese
Library Location
C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-jabd-sk34