Photograph
A Friendly Game
![Leonore and Forest Middleton, on the far left, playing cards with two other women and a man while sitting at a small table. The man on the far right has the ace of clubs in his pants cuff. There is a pottery frog on the floor at left, and a vase with flowers on a small table at far right. The players are all well-dressed. On the reverse of the print Leonore has written: "Sept. 1921 Tokyo, Japan. Note the beads — Japanese crystal — the loveliest beads F. bot [sic] for me this summer. Taken in the Japanese house we lived in this summer. Just a friendly game — just posed — (flowers are asters). The man & lady in the center is Dr. Norden [?] & wife & the other girl is Miss Shoemacher who roomed with me this summer. She is a stenographer for the national [unreadable]."](http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700016170003/1617000057-l.jpg "A Friendly Game")
| Leonore and Forest Middleton, on the far left, playing cards with two other women and a man while sitting at a small table. The man on the far right has the ace of clubs in his pants cuff. There is a pottery frog on the floor at left, and a vase with flowers on a small table at far right. The players are all well-dressed. On the reverse of the print Leonore has written: "Sept. 1921 Tokyo, Japan. Note the beads — Japanese crystal — the loveliest beads F. bot [sic] for me this summer. Taken in the Japanese house we lived in this summer. Just a friendly game — just posed — (flowers are asters). The man & lady in the center is Dr. Norden [?] & wife & the other girl is Miss Shoemacher who roomed with me this summer. She is a stenographer for the national [unreadable]." |
| Image ID: | 129637 |
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| Creation Date: | 09 1921 |
| Creator Name: | Middleton, Forest, 1892-1990 |
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| Collection Name: | Middleton family photographs, circa 1892-circa 1950s |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6407.8.2 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 3.5 inches |
| Forest and Leonore Middleton lived in Yokohama, Japan and worked in Tokyo from 1920 until they left immediately after the great earthquake of September 1, 1923. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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