Elderly Woman with Boxes of Foraged Mushrooms, 1960s B&W Snapshot Photo For Sale

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Elderly Woman with Boxes of Foraged Mushrooms, 1960s B&W Snapshot Photo:
$9.98

An outdoor snapshot showing an elderly smiling woman with curled white hair standing behind a rustic bench laden with wooden crates and boxes filled to the brim with freshly harvested wild mushrooms (likely matsutake). The front margin is stamped 'JUL • 63', while the handwritten note on the reverse dates the capture to November 5, 1962, accompanied by Japanese poetic verse and notes detailing the harvest breakdown ('開き四箱つぼみ一個' - four boxes of open caps, one bud). Back of Photo Note:"1962nov 5th