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Jane Theresa Taylor in Bajiou, Philippines

Date: 1913
Description: Trading market; Bajiou, Philippines. Image of boy with notation: "Native Bajiou (P.I.) giving Jane his hat." Second of a sequence of three images.
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Jane Theresa Taylor in Bajiou, Philippines

Date: 1913
Description: Trading market; Bajiou, Philippines. Image of boy with notation: "Janie paying a native of Bajiou P.I. for having his picture taken and giving me his hat."...
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Naturalization

Date: 09 18 1984
Description: Jennie Youn Haeng Seider, 4, of Milwaukee, used her father Jeffrey Seider's back to display her new certificate of naturalization.
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Child Laborers Bringing Fibre Down From Mountains

Date: 1910
Description: Procession of child laborers carrying bundles of twine fibre (fiber) down from the mountains in the Philippines. The fibre was likely used by International...
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Philippine Workers Transport Fibre using Water Buffalo

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Description: Workers transporting twine fibre (fiber) using water buffalo and a wooden cart in the Philippines. The fibre was likely used by International Harvester fo...
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Chinese Art Exhibit at Woman's Building

Date: 11 16 1934
Description: Group of men and women viewing Chinese art and artifacts including tables, bell, teapot and Chinese junk with sails. On the wall in the back are pictures o...
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Vaudeville Actors in front of Crescent Clothing

Date: 05 25 1931
Description: Wan Wan San Chinese acrobats and Harris and Van, from the Orpheum Theatre, wearing straw hats, in front of Crescent Clothing Store, 27 N. Pinckney Street. ...
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Farmer and Son on F-12 Tractor

Date: 10 27 1936
Description: Farmer Sam Tanaka posing with his son on a Farmall F-12 tractor in a cauliflower field.
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United National Clothing Collection

Date: 04 20 1945
Description: Handing over bundles of clothing collected for the United National Clothing Drive are three Chinese children, Judy, Betty and Billy Lee, children of Mr. an...
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Student Chuan-Yen Liu

Date: 03 05 1949
Description: Chuan-Yen Liu, a University of Wisconsin graduate student in economics, working at the Truax Field cafeteria. The students at the University of Wisconsin h...
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Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa in "The Cheat"

Date: 1915
Description: Dramatic publicity still of Fannie Ward (playing Edith Hardy) and Sessue Hayakawa (as Hishuru Tori) in "The Cheat" (Lasky, 1915). Original caption: "Edith ...
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Sessue Hayakawa in "His Birthright."

Date: 1918
Description: Sessue Hayakawa sits in a chair with his fist raised in a publicity still for "His Birthright" (Haworth 1918).
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Sessue Hayakawa

Date: 1916
Description: Sessue Hayakawa in a portrait by the Hartsook Studio.
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Sessue Hayakawa

Date: 1918
Description: Sessue Hayakawa in a studio portrait. The original caption reads: "Sessue Hayakawa. Star in Special productions. Produced by Haworth Picture Corporation....
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Emmanuele Riva and Eiji Okada in Hiroshima mon amour

Date: 1959
Description: Scene still of Emmanuele Riva, as she, and Eiji Okada, as he, in Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959).
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The "Guardian" Chinese Tour

Date: 04 1974
Description: Supporters of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper, visiting the birthplace of Mao Tse Tung.
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Beheaded Criminals in China

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Description: A view of four beheaded men lying on the ground with a group of officers standing behind, posing for the camera. A man to the left in the central group hol...
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Public Hanging in Korea

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Description: A view of men's bodies hanging from poles. People are watching from behind. Caption reads: "Public Hanging in Korea."
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Leonore Middleton and Students

Date: 1922
Description: Leonore Judkins Middleton showing a book to three young Japanese men. An iron kettle is sitting on a stove in the background. On the reverse of the print i...
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Soldiers and Residents, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Vinh Quoi, Vietnam, in the aftermath of a Viet Cong attack. There is a burned-out building in the background. A male resident is sitting on a downed fence ...

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