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Laotian Family in Milwaukee

Date: 1978
Description: A family of twelve posing in a room; some are sitting and some are standing. Caption reads: "The Laotian family in Milwaukee posed for a portrait Monday. T...
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Visiting Japanese Students at Leon's Frozen Custard

Date: 1980
Description: View across parking lot towards a group of Japanese woman posing in front of Leon's Frozen Custard. Caption reads: "Visiting Japanese students posed in fro...
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Phak Family in Stoughton

Date: 1979
Description: A Cambodian family of six posing on the front steps of their home. Caption reads: "In front of their home in Stoughton, the Phak family poses for a portrai...
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Mission School Girls Cleaning Rice

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Description: Ten girls are posing in a walled courtyard sitting on the ground, with plates of rice in front of them. In the foreground is a wooden box and a pail. Capti...
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Pamela Khavithone and Family

Date: 1979
Description: A man, woman, and infant posing in a room with several hanging plants. Caption reads: "Pamela Khavitone with Devin and her Laotian husband Mahn."
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Cowboys of Manchuria and Siberia

Date: 1917
Description: Five men posing with horses. Caption reads: "Cowboys of Manchuria & Siberia."
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Remembering

Date: 1981
Description: Six family members looking at a photograph album outdoors. Caption reads: "REMEMBERING. Norma Clemente and her family looked through the family album at he...
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Chinese Couple's Wedding Portrait

Date: 05 18 1929
Description: 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...
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Mioro Yamamoto

Date: 1910
Description: Quarter-length portrait of a young man, identified as Mioro Yamamoto. Yamamoto was a Japanese international student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison;...
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Office Worker

Date: 1922
Description: An unidentified Japanese man standing in front of a desk holding a stack of letters in his right hand. He is wearing a ring on his left hand. There is a te...
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Ed Fernandez and Bernadette Davantes

Date: 04 13 1989
Description: A man and woman performing a dance over two bamboo poles. Caption reads: "Students from around the world brought their customs and culture to Marquette Uni...
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Streetcar

Date: 1920
Description: A man is standing on the rear of a small streetcar in Japan. There is a utility pole and several two-story buildings on the left.
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Shopkeeper

Date: 1920
Description: A smiling shopkeeper in traditional dress showing a ceramic cat to Leonore Middleton. There are shelves behind Leonore which are crowded with figurines.
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Cherry Blossom Festival

Date: 1921
Description: Leonore Middleton, in hat, facing camera, posing with two unidentified women, left, near two small market stalls under blooming cherry trees along a roadwa...
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Pottery Shop

Date: 1920
Description: A shopkeeper is using a feather duster to clean stacks of bowls displayed on a low table in the open air. Teapots in an array of shapes and finishes are su...
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The Great Torii

Date: 1920
Description: Stone lanterns on the shore near a leaning pine tree frame a view of the Great Torii on Japan's Inland Sea. Two Japanese women in traditional kimonos are s...
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Japanese Actress Visits Madison

Date: 11 07 1957
Description: Actress Muko Taka with Sertoma Club President, Don Jensen. She was a guest at the Club during a visit to Madison, when performing in the play "Sayonara" at...
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Hollington K. Tong, Nationalist China Ambassador to the United States

Date: 02 19 1958
Description: Hollington K. Tong, Nationalist China Ambassador to the United States (left) and O.C. Akre, Madison representative of Northwest Orient Airlines (center) ar...
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Economics Orientation Course Participants

Date: 09 04 1958
Description: One in a series featuring faculty and students who participated in a nine week orientation economic study for foreign students. Principals at the closing c...
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Sowing Sesame Seed

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Description: Two men are standing near an ox, which is dragging a wooden implement. One man is holding a woven basket and casting seeds. Caption reads: "Sewing [sic] se...

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