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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.
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Eliza C. Scidmore in Yokohama

Date: 1895
Description: Eliza Catherine Scidmore seated in an ornate chair with a small dog curled up on her lap. Next to her stands a Japanese woman.
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"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, ...
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

Women in Kimonos Working

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two women working. The woman on the left is kneeling on the ground and chopping tea on a wooden board. The woman standing in ...
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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Adopted Korean Orphan

Date: 1958
Description: A Korean toddler is facing the camera with teary eyes. She is being held by a woman who is nuzzling her face to the child's and has her eyes closed. This p...

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