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"The Cheat" Movie Still

Date: 1915
Description: A menacing Sessu Hayakawa looms over a terrified Fannie Ward in a scene from the silent film "The Cheat" (Paramount 1915). In the upper right hand corner, ...
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Grand Hotel Queen's Birthday Menu Exterior

Date: 05 24 1898
Description: Front and back covers, printed in color, of the bill of fare served at the Grand Hotel on the birthday of Queen Victoria, with a tinted three-quarter view ...
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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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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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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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Pearl White and Virginia Chang

Date: 07 03 1936
Description: Pearl White welcomed to Shanghai by Virginia Chang, the daughter of the Chinese minster to Chile. Both women are dressed very nicely.

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