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Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...
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Island Woman with Typewriter

Date: 08 24 1943
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...
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Major and Indigenous Man

Date: 11 05 1943
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...
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Street Traders at Apia

Date: 02 25 1945
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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Indigenous Woman Poses with NATS Crew

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: An indigenous woman poses with NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific. She is wearing a flowered lava l...
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Robert Doyle and Indigenous Man

Date: 01 07 1943
Description: Text attached to a print made from the negative reads, "This photo of me with a Papuan native carrier was made near Buna early in January. This fellow with...
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Brooks Memorial Union Mixer

Date: 09 17 1954
Description: Two women and two men are looking at a pile of vinyl record albums. Caption reads: "Foreign students were among guests of honor at a mixer at Brooks...

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