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| Description: | Candid portrait of Hilo Hattie (born Clarissa "Clara" Haili), who was a Hawaiian musician, dancer, actress and comedian. There is a guitar on the ground ne... |
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| Description: | A group of workers harvest the fruit in a pineapple field. There is a large pile of pineapples in the foreground. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A missionary from New England, Winthrop Stark (played by William B. Davidson), professes his love to Princess Zara (Theda Bara in a grass skirt) on the Sou... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Enid Markey, in a grass skirt, plays Kalaniweo, the Polynesian chief's daughter. Embracing her is Willard Mack playing David Harmon, a shipwrecked lawyer i... |
| Date: | 08 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers from the U.S. 6th Army Division, from Detroit, (left to right), Private Ned Zaffaramo, Private First Class Richard Rheaume and Private Kamil... |
| Date: | 08 12 1943 |
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| Description: | Three indigenous boys building a roof out of what appears to be palm fronds at Combat Team Headquarters on Kiriwina Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1943 |
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| Description: | Two indigenous boys peel yams on Kiriwina Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). |
| Date: | 08 12 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous youth weaves roofing for military buildings on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). |
| Date: | 08 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Indigenous men stand by a tail section as they watch planes take off and land at the Kiriwina Airfield on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p... |
| Date: | 08 15 1943 |
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| Description: | A soldier and four indigenous men shade their eyes as they watch planes take off and land at the Kiriwina Airfield on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, N... |
| Date: | 08 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Five indigenous workers balance on timbers while building the framing for a roof on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New G... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A young indigenous woman wearing a flower in her hair poses with an older woman who is balancing a basket on her head on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea... |
| Date: | 08 24 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous man climbs a coconut palm to harvest coconuts on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). His feet are ... |
| Date: | 08 28 1943 |
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| Description: | View looking up at an upset indigenous toddler wearing a banner around his middle with "1944" pasted on it. He is holding a pair of sunglasses and standing... |
| Date: | 08 24 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous woman wearing a grass shirt sits on a carved boat with Robert Doyle on the shore of Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present d... |
| Date: | 11 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Austin Henry of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, poses with an indigenous man in front of the medical tent at the military camp on Woodlark Island, in the Solom... |
| Date: | 12 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of six young indigenous women posed seated on the ground. They are wearing grass skirts and flowers in their hair. The woman in front is holding a ... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Gordon Williams, of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Stanley J. Quinn of the Mutual Broadcasting System, pose with two indigenous men in front ... |
| Date: | 02 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Indigenous traders on the sidewalk in front of the Burns Philip Ltd. Store display window at Apia, British Samoa (today the independent country of Samoa). ... |
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