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Singer Sewing Machine in Java

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Description: Illustration of a Javanese woman sewing at a Singer Sewing machine while a Javanese man looks on.
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Wrights Eating Watermelon

Date: 1924
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright lounges on a hill near Spring Green with Kameki and Nobu Tsuchira and four other people, whose identities are unclear, eating watermelon...
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The "Guardian" Chinese Tour

Date: 04 1974
Description: Supporters of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper, visiting the birthplace of Mao Tse Tung.
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Robert Kennedy in Hong Kong

Date: 1962
Description: Robert Kennedy, then attorney general, surrounded by young people during a visit to Hong Kong. Kennedy was traveling in Southeast Asia, and the tall white-...
Print

Tigerton Post Office Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Post Office at Tigerton, Wisconsin, with a stock Chinoiserie image of a man standing and a woman holding a fan sitting in either a boat o...
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Vietnamese Woman with Children Surrounded by Soldiers

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Description: A woman is placing a baby in a basket held by a little boy. Behind her, a man lies prone holding another child, while two soldiers walk towards a house in ...
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Group Portrait of War Correspondents in Guam

Date: 04 1945
Description: A group of war correspondents, soldiers and officers pose outdoors on the sand in front of palm trees for a portrait in Guam. Many are holding a beverage a...
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

Fabric at a Market

Date: 1910
Description: A group of young women in kimonos examining fabric while young men look on. In her journal from Japan and South Korea, Carrie records that fabric is one of...
Photograph

Man and Woman Preparing Wool

Date: 1910
Description: A man and a woman squat on a mat on the floor, whipping wool to prepare it for use. They wear white scarves on their heads. The bottom right of the image c...
Photograph

"Hashimura Togo"

Date: 1917
Description: Hashimura Togo (Sessue Hayakawa) is leaning towards Corinne Reynolds (Florence Vidor) who is sitting, in a scene from the 1917 film "Hashimura Togo." She i...
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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...
Photograph

Traveling by Elephant to Florence

Date: 02 20 1923
Description: Five people are posing around an elephant in front of a large tree. Two people are standing next to the elephant, one man is the mahout sitting at the elep...
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Eliza Scidmore with Mrs. Waldo

Date: 06 1898
Description: Mrs. Waldo, Mrs. Eliza Scidmore (in center holding a puppy in her lap), and an unidentified woman each sitting in rickshaws, which are also known as jinrik...

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