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| Date: | 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of Chiang Kai-Shek and Madam Chiang Kai-Shek as they greet American reporters at their home in Taipei, only a few months after fleeing Mainland Ch... |
| Date: | 09 1959 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a kimono at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of Tohiro Mifume as Tajomaru the bandit and Machiko Kyo as his wife Masago in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950). |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Machiko Kyo, as Lady Wakasa, places an order with Genjuro the potter, played by Masayuki Mori, in Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari (1953). |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Scene still of Yûnosuke Itô, as the writer, and Takashi Shimura, as the dying bureaucrat Kanji Watanabe, in Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952). |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Scene still of Emmanuele Riva, as she, and Eiji Okada, as he, in Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959). |
| Date: | 09 1951 |
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| Description: | A British soldier or police officer and a civilian on the bridge between the British area of Hong Kong and Communist China. |
| Date: | 12 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Hiroyoshi Yamamoto of Kurwe-shi, Japan (right) decorating a Christmas tree in the home of his hosts, the Dr. Frank K. Dean family. Tom (center) is standing... |
| Date: | 05 25 1956 |
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| Description: | Attending the YWCA Benefit Tea for internationally speaking foreign students in costume of their native land are, left to right: Judith Ahana, Honolulu Haw... |
| Date: | 03 25 1956 |
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| Description: | Louise Troxell, honored guest of the YWCA Benefit Tea for internationally speaking University of Wisconsin foreign students, chats with two foreign student... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Makita Tomita (right), a native of Tokyo, Japan, demonstrating basic Japanese flower arrangement. Looking on at left, are Altrusa Club members Janet Jennin... |
| Date: | 03 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Songs from foreign lands were presented at a benefit musicale at the St. Francis House, 1001 University Avenue. The event was sponsored by Episcopalians f... |
| Date: | 10 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Representatives of overseas students' organizations were greeted by University President Conrad Elvehjem, Vice-Pres. Fred Harrington, and Prof. Jonathon Cu... |
| Date: | 11 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Four foreign exchange students attending Madison high schools are guests of honor at the annual Madison Youth Council banquet. They are shown pointing out ... |
| Date: | 02 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Dorothy and D. Murray Angevine (left); and Mrs. and Mr. Masako Yamada attending the opening of an exhibition of Japanese prints at the U.W. Memorial Librar... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Chinese National marine crawls on his stomach beneath barbed wire in an infiltration training course in Formosa. Another man is on the right. The course in... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Actress Muko Taka with Sertoma Club President, Don Jensen. She was a guest at the Club during a visit to Madison, when performing in the play "Sayonara" at... |
| Date: | 02 19 1958 |
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| Description: | Hollington K. Tong, Nationalist China Ambassador to the United States (left) and O.C. Akre, Madison representative of Northwest Orient Airlines (center) ar... |
| Date: | 09 04 1958 |
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| Description: | One in a series featuring faculty and students who participated in a nine week orientation economic study for foreign students. Principals at the closing c... |
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