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Chinese Couple's Wedding Portrait
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Tou Fong Chu, bride and Tsao Shih Wang, groom, working on a PhD in Political Science at the U.W., are posing with, left to right: Justice Marvin Rosenberry, who married the couple in the first wedding held in the Memorial Union, Dean F. Louise Nardin, the couple, T.K.Pan, best man and Dean Scott H. Goodnight who gave the bride away. The back of the photograph is signed: "To Mr. and Mrs. M.B. Rosenberry From Mr. and Mrs. T.S. Wang, July 28, 1929." Includes further annotation in Chinese.
May 18, 1929
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