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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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Singer Advertising Card — Filipino Pair

Date: 1892
Description: Chromolithograph card of a boy and a girl from Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, in "native" Filipino costume, posing next to a Singer sewing ma...
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International Bus in the Philippines

Date: 1960
Description: Man and woman with baskets boarding a crowded International bus bound for Bolinao in the Pangasinan Province of the Philippines.
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Chinese Art Exhibit at Woman's Building

Date: 11 16 1934
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...
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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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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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Asian Dignitaries

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Description: Asian dignitaries, including two women, amidst a crowd, perhaps at a railroad station.
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Singer Advertising Card - Indian Couple

Date: 1892
Description: Chromolithograph card of an couple from India in "native" Indian costume, posing next to a Singer sewing machine. Part of a "Costumes of All Nations," set ...
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Singer Advertising Card - Ceylonese Couple

Date: 1892
Description: Chromolithograph card of a couple from Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] in "native" Ceylonese costume, posing next to a Singer sewing machine. Part of a "Costumes of...
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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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Saigon Street Scene

Date: 06 1968
Description: A busy street in wartime Vietnam with bicycles, motorbikes, and automobiles.
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Leonore Middleton and Students

Date: 1922
Description: Leonore Judkins Middleton showing a book to three young Japanese men. An iron kettle is sitting on a stove in the background. On the reverse of the print i...
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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-...
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Refugees at Luang Prabang Airport, Laos

Date: 05 1961
Description: Three refugees posing for a picture in front of a corrugated structure for shade at the Luang Prabang airport, Laos. Two soldiers stand in the background a...
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Lao Infantrymen at Keukacham Meo Settlement

Date: 1961
Description: Two Lao infantry men posing for a picture on a dirt road next to a stack of crates in the Keukacham Meo settlement, Laos. A number of residents and soldier...
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Man Being Carried on Stretcher

Date: 06 1962
Description: Vietnamese man and survivor of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi is carried on a stretcher to a helicopter for medical evacuation. Three women...
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Waiting with Stretchers for Helilift

Date: 06 1962
Description: Survivors of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi wait on or with stretchers for a helicopter medical evacuation in a grassy field.
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Survivors of Attack on Village

Date: 06 1962
Description: Women, children and elderly survivors of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi standing in a field. In the background a group of men are hauling s...
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Helilift of Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: Helilift of corpses after a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. The corpses are wrapped in sheets and lying atop mats on the ground in a field. S...
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Helilift of Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: In the aftermath of Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi, corpses await helilift. The corpses are wrapped in sheets and lying atop woven mats in a ...

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