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Red Cross Workers Relaxing

Date: 1945
Description: Leota Kelly, directer of the Pacific Athletic Club, division of the Red Cross, and colleagues, at the site of the new Red Cross Club in Tinian near a cliff...
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Pacific Athletic Club Director

Date: 1945
Description: Leota Kelly, director of the Red Cross's Pacific Athletic Club, posing for a picture by the shore in Tinian at the site of the new Red Cross Club. Kelly is...
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Crew on Higgins Boat

Date: 08 11 1943
Description: Crew of four aboard a Higgins boat, also known as a LCVP, which stands for "Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel." Their names, left to right, are Fireman 1st...
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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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Indigenous Boys Help Soldiers

Date: 1942
Description: Indigenous men help 32nd Division soldiers from units, originally from Wisconsin, who paddle in collapsible canvas boats to small coastal vessels. The man ...
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Robert Doyle with Two Indigenous Men

Date: 06 1945
Description: Micronesian men, who put thatched roofs on buildings in the western Caroline Islands for United States forces, sit chatting with Robert J. Doyle, The Journ...
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The Great Torii

Date: 1920
Description: Stone lanterns on the shore near a leaning pine tree frame a view of the Great Torii on Japan's Inland Sea. Two Japanese women in traditional kimonos are s...
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Esther Van Wagoner Tufty in Hawaii

Date: 1952
Description: Typewritten note on Royal Hawaiian stationery reads: "Royal Hawaiian, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, Washington D.C. war correspondent ...

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