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Japanese Businessmen

Date: 04 11 1968
Description: Japanese businessmen visit an American manufacturing firm in South Milwaukee and pose inside a huge metal implement. The American firm is Bucyrus-Erie and...
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Milwaukee Aikido Club

Date: 02 14 1968
Description: An Aikido class in session.
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Processing Sisal in the Philippines

Date: 1948
Description: Workers processing bundles of sisal in large piles at an International Harvester facility in the Philippines.
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Dickey Chapelle with Children

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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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Groves Women's Co-op President and House Parents

Date: 10 23 1944
Description: Group portrait of Ruby Kubota, a Japanese-American student and president of the Groves Women's Co-operative house, 625 North Henry Street; Prof. Selig Perl...
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United National Clothing Collection

Date: 04 20 1945
Description: Handing over bundles of clothing collected for the United National Clothing Drive are three Chinese children, Judy, Betty and Billy Lee, children of Mr. an...
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Madison Visitors from India

Date: 09 08 1948
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Sunderlal Mehta, of Saharanpur, India, with their son, Sudarshan. Their son studied at the College of Agriculture in the University of Wiscons...
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Newlyweds in the Kitchen

Date: 09 08 1948
Description: Dad Farmanfarma and his wife, Sylvia, in their kitchen in their home that has Swiss, Persian and American influences.
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Asian Dignitaries

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Description: Asian dignitaries, including a man and two women, are standing amidst a crowd, perhaps at a railroad station.
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Madison Altrusa Club

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Miss Gay Braxton, director of the Neighborhood House and chairman of the Altrusa Club scholarship fund, at right, with two graduate students of the Univers...
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Yi Jianlian Before Bucks Exhibition Game

Date: 2007
Description: Milwaukee Bucks center Yi Jianlian stretching before his first NBA exhibition game.
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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...
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Charles Toy

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

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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."
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Shanghai Woman

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

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Description: A studio portrait of the Nguyen family. From left to right are: Thuy, Trong (father), Minh, Hong (mother), Mary, Kim (grandfather), and Charlie.
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Mary Nguyen's Birthday Cake

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Description: Members of the Nguyen family gather around Mary Nguyen as she inhales deeply to blow out candles on her birthday cake. From left to right are: Charlie, Mar...
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Thuy Nguyen and Thanh Le

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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's Funeral

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Description: The Nguyen family, each wearing a white headband, poses in front of the casket of Kim Nguyen, the family patriarch.
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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.

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