Photo of the Day

February 26, 2020

Toy Shop

A mother buys her daughter a doll at a market in Osaka, Japan. The photo appeared in the May 1950 issue of National Geographic in a story documenting changes in Japan following the end of World War II.

Photograph by J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, Nat Geo Image Collectio

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