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Student Chuan-Yen Liu

Date: 03 05 1949
Description: Chuan-Yen Liu, a University of Wisconsin graduate student in economics, working at the Truax Field cafeteria. The students at the University of Wisconsin h...
Photograph

Charles Toy

Date: 08 28 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Charles Toy, Milwaukee importer of Chinese merchandise and owner of Chinese restaurant.
Photograph

Unidentified Woman in Hat

Date: 
Description: Possibly a picture of Harold Gauer's brother Norman's "exotic oriental' dancer wife. Photograph was taken in the Brady Street "Lab."
Photograph

Shanghai Woman

Date: 
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of a woman from Shanghai in a traditional costume and holding a hand fan.
Photograph

Thuy Nguyen and Thanh Le

Date: 
Description: Thuy Nguyen sits on the lap of family friend "Uncle" Thanh Le, a teacher at Madison East High School.
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Kim Nguyen at Home

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Description: Kim Nguyen is sitting at home. There is a map of Vietnam on the wall behind him.
Photograph

"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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Ho Chi Minh as a Radical in France

Date: 1920
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Ho Chi Minh, with a shallow depth of field and simple background. Ho Chi Minh looks off to his right.
Poster

Film Festival Rotterdam: Guests of '87

Date: 1987
Description: Poster advertising filmmakers in attendance at the 1987 Film Festival Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The poster shows 49 photographs of the 53 filmmakers. ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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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