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International Harvester Postcard — India

Date: 1910
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 ...
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How To Wear a Sari

Date: 03 13 1954
Description: Anna Chandapillal (right) demonstrates how to pleat the front of a sari modeled by Lenore Gourdin (left).
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How To Wear a Sari

Date: 03 13 1954
Description: Anna Chandapillal (right) pleats the shoulder drape of the sari modeled by Lenore Gourdin (left).
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Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and Dean John Bowers

Date: 06 17 1956
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...
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Indian Ambassador to the United States

Date: 06 23 1956
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...
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Women Using Loom

Date: 1910
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...
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Three Women Gathering Food in Ceylon

Date: 1910
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...
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Woman and Man Grinding Grains

Date: 1910
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...
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Two Women with Flowers

Date: 1910
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...
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Workers in a Tea Field

Date: 1910
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...
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Madison Council of United Church Women Interfaith Tea

Date: 07 07 1961
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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Henna Artist Ishrat

Date: 2016
Description: A young Indian woman, Ishrat, is sitting in a lawn chair in her booth at a fair. She is wearing a traditional Punjabi outfit (the salwar kameez) and is off...

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