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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A scene still from "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915) showing Hishuru Tori, played by Sessue Hayakawa, preparing to brand Edith Hardy (Fannie Ward) on the back of h... |
| Date: | 11 16 1934 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women viewing Chinese art and artifacts including tables, bell, teapot and Chinese junk with sails. On the wall in the back are pictures o... |
| Date: | 05 25 1931 |
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| Description: | Wan Wan San Chinese acrobats and Harris and Van, from the Orpheum Theatre, wearing straw hats, in front of Crescent Clothing Store, 27 N. Pinckney Street. ... |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, with cameras around her neck, poses with three women and a group of children. |
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| Description: | Possibly a picture of Harold Gauer's brother Norman's "exotic oriental' dancer wife. Photograph was taken in the Brady Street "Lab." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Dramatic publicity still of Fannie Ward (playing Edith Hardy) and Sessue Hayakawa (as Hishuru Tori) in "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915). Original caption: "Edith ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Sessue Hayakawa sits in a chair with his fist raised in a publicity still for "His Birthright" (Haworth 1918). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sessue Hayakawa in a portrait by the Hartsook Studio. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Sessue Hayakawa in a studio portrait. The original caption reads: "Sessue Hayakawa. Star in Special productions. Produced by Haworth Picture Corporation.... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of Tohiro Mifume as Tajomaru the bandit and Machiko Kyo as his wife Masago in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950). |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Machiko Kyo, as Lady Wakasa, places an order with Genjuro the potter, played by Masayuki Mori, in Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari (1953). |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Scene still of Yûnosuke Itô, as the writer, and Takashi Shimura, as the dying bureaucrat Kanji Watanabe, in Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952). |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Scene still of Emmanuele Riva, as she, and Eiji Okada, as he, in Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959). |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Eiji Okada, as the amateur entomologist Niki Jumpei, and Kyôko Kishida, as the woman, in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes, 196... |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn map of a house labeled in both English and Chinese. Notes include escape routes. Two girls were kept here. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with six brownies depicting six different nationalities. One brownie is playing a trumpet, and another brownie is playing an upright bass fidd... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Large funeral for multiple people in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Numerous decoratively painted coffins with cloth coverings are on display in a large open-air, roo... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Caption across top reads: "Chas. E. Blaney presents Young Buffalo, King of the Wild West in his new play Sheriff of Angel Gulch." ... |
| Date: | 12 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Hiroyoshi Yamamoto of Kurwe-shi, Japan (right) decorating a Christmas tree in the home of his hosts, the Dr. Frank K. Dean family. Tom (center) is standing... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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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