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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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Laotian Family in Milwaukee

Date: 1978
Description: A family of twelve posing in a room; some are sitting and some are standing. Caption reads: "The Laotian family in Milwaukee posed for a portrait Monday. T...
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Visiting Japanese Students at Leon's Frozen Custard

Date: 1980
Description: View across parking lot towards a group of Japanese woman posing in front of Leon's Frozen Custard. Caption reads: "Visiting Japanese students posed in fro...
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Phak Family in Stoughton

Date: 1979
Description: A Cambodian family of six posing on the front steps of their home. Caption reads: "In front of their home in Stoughton, the Phak family poses for a portrai...
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Mission School Girls Cleaning Rice

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Description: Ten girls are posing in a walled courtyard sitting on the ground, with plates of rice in front of them. In the foreground is a wooden box and a pail. Capti...
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Pamela Khavithone and Family

Date: 1979
Description: A man, woman, and infant posing in a room with several hanging plants. Caption reads: "Pamela Khavitone with Devin and her Laotian husband Mahn."
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Remembering

Date: 1981
Description: Six family members looking at a photograph album outdoors. Caption reads: "REMEMBERING. Norma Clemente and her family looked through the family album at he...
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Chinese Couple's Wedding Portrait

Date: 05 18 1929
Description: Tou Fong Chu, bride and Tsao Shih Wang, groom, working on a PhD in Political Science at the U.W., are posing with, left to right: Justice Marvin Rosenberry...
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Ed Fernandez and Bernadette Davantes

Date: 04 13 1989
Description: A man and woman performing a dance over two bamboo poles. Caption reads: "Students from around the world brought their customs and culture to Marquette Uni...
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Shopkeeper

Date: 1920
Description: A smiling shopkeeper in traditional dress showing a ceramic cat to Leonore Middleton. There are shelves behind Leonore which are crowded with figurines.
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Cherry Blossom Festival

Date: 1921
Description: Leonore Middleton, in hat, facing camera, posing with two unidentified women, left, near two small market stalls under blooming cherry trees along a roadwa...
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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...
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The Great Torii

Date: 1920
Description: Stone lanterns on the shore near a leaning pine tree frame a view of the Great Torii on Japan's Inland Sea. Two Japanese women in traditional kimonos are s...
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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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Pearl White and Virginia Chang

Date: 07 03 1936
Description: Pearl White welcomed to Shanghai by Virginia Chang, the daughter of the Chinese minster to Chile. Both women are dressed very nicely.
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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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