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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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Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three boys in black robes each holding a book. The boys stand with two potted plants, and a prop wall of s... |
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Description: | A man and a woman squat on a mat on the floor, whipping wool to prepare it for use. They wear white scarves on their heads. The bottom right of the image c... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | From her journal from the Philippines Carrie writes: "Mrs. Zumaar and Mrs. Peacock both taught at the new Anglican school and invited us to visit their cla... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | In her journal from Sudan, Carrie describes a tiger hunt which occurred while she was visiting a village. The tiger had been preying on livestock for a cou... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | A woman sitting on a beach using a loom. In her journals, Carrie often described looms and their use for making cloth for clothes, siding for houses, woven... |
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Description: | Two girls cleaning. One is carrying a basket while another holds a large fan-shaped object which was used like a broom. The description in the lower right ... |
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Description: | A young woman wearing a traditional Sari. Carrie describes a number of Sari styles in her journal from India. |
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Description: | In her journal from India, Carrie mentions cock fights, describing them as a "barbaric form of entertainment". Here is shown a group of men watching one su... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Portrait of revolutionary and activist Shen Pei Zhen (沈佩贞) in Chinese military dress. It is signed "Sincerely yours with best wishes P... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | In her journal from China, Carrie describes a scene from the harbor: "There are a multitude of boats. The sails are colored like birch. The water under a c... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Two unidentified women. The woman on the left is standing. The woman on the right is seated. They are holding hands. The background and foreground show flo... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Two girls, a boy, a woman, and an infant. Two children have pots on their heads which Carrie describes as a means to gather water in a number of journals. ... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | One of the buildings at one of the temples Carrie visited in China. Carrie visited many temples and during her travels read many books on local custom and ... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a bridge over a rocky river. In the lower left foreground people are near small, thatched roof buildings, with what appear to be wooden mi... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Five women, four of them carrying large sacks of grain on their head, stand behind a group of women sitting on the ground. All of them are wearing head wra... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Four children standing waist-deep in a cement pool. Around the pool men and a young child, all wearing head wraps, stand or sit on the cement wall surround... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | From Carrie's journal from Palestine: "There were many terraced hills, covered with olive orchards. Men, women and children were gathering the olives, clim... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | During her visit to Sudan, Carrie describes a tiger hunt. The men of the village built large wooden traps for the tiger, seen here with men posed around it... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Group portrait of men who have taken the tiger out of the trap. In her journal from Sudan, Carrie describes a tiger hunt which occurred while she was visit... |
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