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Two Women with Flowers

Date: 1910
Description: Two women surrounded by flowers in the Philippines. They are wearing "voluminous blouses of a sheer material," as Carrie Chapman Catt describes in her jour...
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Older Girl Styling Younger Girl's Hair

Date: 1910
Description: An older girl styling a younger girl's hair. Both girls are sitting on the floor wearing brightly colored blouses and skirts, and are barefoot. Both girls ...
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Boy Standing at Gate

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored portrait of a boy standing in the arch of a decorative iron gate holding the door open with his right hand and holding a hand fan and handkerc...
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Women in Kimonos Working

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two women working. The woman on the left is kneeling on the ground and chopping tea on a wooden board. The woman standing in ...
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Portrait of Qiu Jin

Date: 1910
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Chinese revolutionary and feminist Qiu Jin in "European dress." She is standing near a table and holds an object in her ri...
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Two Women Bowing in Kimonos

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two women bowing to each other on opposite sides of an entrance gate to a yard. In her diary from Japan and South Korea, Carr...
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Two Girls and Woman Cutting and Drying Tea

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of a kneeling girl on the left who is cutting tea on a wooden board on the ground. A girl and a woman stand working on a woven m...
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Two Girls Working with Paper

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two girls in kimonos kneeling on a floor, bent over a low table working with paper. Behind them is a decorated folded room sc...
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Women and Children Sitting Outside

Date: 1910
Description: Four people sitting on the ground outside of a shelter with a thatched roof. The woman on the left is styling a girl's hair. The woman on the right is hold...
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Group of Women Reading

Date: 1910
Description: A group of women reading in a large room. One woman stands in front of a glass-fronted bookcase against the back wall. The woman wear brightly colored and ...
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Three Women Seated Around a Table

Date: 1910
Description: The women sit at a table on which are papers with Asiatic lettering, along with a teapot and teacups. Behind the group are sliding wooden door panels. In f...
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Woman using Loom

Date: 1910
Description: Woman using a loom outdoors. In her journal from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) she records: "The women braid the fibres together making a crude mat of them. The t...

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