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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Postcard of horses pulling a grain binder. Man seated on machine. Caption reads "Siberia — A Harvest Scene near Tobolsk, where American Harvesting Machines... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Postcard with a color illustration of men and women working in fields. Original caption: "India — Primitive methods are still in use. The Reaping Hook has ... |
| Date: | 03 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Anna Chandapillal (right) demonstrates how to pleat the front of a sari modeled by Lenore Gourdin (left). |
| Date: | 03 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Anna Chandapillal (right) pleats the shoulder drape of the sari modeled by Lenore Gourdin (left). |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a harvesting scene in India: men and women working in fields. Ori... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men with hand harvesting tools and an ox-drawn hay cart in a foreign field (possibly India?). |
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| Description: | Portrait of N.M. Patell, seated in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 06 17 1956 |
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| Description: | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India's minister of welfare and health, is shown in a speedboat on Lake Mendota with Dean John Z. Bowers, of the University of Wiscon... |
| Date: | 06 23 1956 |
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| Description: | Guest speaker at the Students from India Attending Mid-Western Colleges and Universities convention is G.L Mehta, second from left, India's ambassador to t... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Men follow an oxcart with an International Harvester tractor in India. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino poses wearing very little but an elaborate breechcloth decorated with pearls for his role as the Maharajah of Dharmagar in "The Young Raj... |
| Date: | 07 20 1959 |
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| Description: | Two members of the University of Wisconsin's India Association smile their thanks to Governor Gaylord Nelson for "the wonderful hospitality extended toward... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Marion Davies, costumed as an East Indian princess, sits enthroned at the back of a lavishly decorated set surrounded by a crowd of worshipful soldiers, da... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beckoning Flame," the Indian colonial administrator Harry Dickson (played by Henry Woodruff) and his English ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of one woman using a loom and another woman preparing fibers for the loom to create siding for housing. This image was taken or purchased by C... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three women standing in a row. Two of the women are carrying food in baskets and pottery on their head. They are unclothed above the waist and wearing clot... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman and man grinding a variety of grain in a large stone mortar. The woman is wearing a blouse and skirt, the man is wearing white pants and is barefoo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two women surrounded by flowers in the Philippines. They are wearing "voluminous blouses of a sheer material," as Carrie Chapman Catt describes in her jour... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Carrie Chapman Catt, in her journal from her trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), describes the tea plantations: "the little brown women, picking tea, was an in... |
| Date: | 07 07 1961 |
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| Description: | Several persons from foreign lands were special guests of honor at the tea. Shown with Frances Rieser (third from left), are Mrs. T.C. Pillay of India, Edu... |
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