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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Makita Tomita (right), a native of Tokyo, Japan, demonstrating basic Japanese flower arrangement. Looking on at left, are Altrusa Club members Janet Jennin...
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Women in Kimonos Working

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two women working. The woman on the left is kneeling on the ground and chopping tea on a wooden board. The woman standing in ...
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Portrait of Qiu Jin

Date: 1910
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Chinese revolutionary and feminist Qiu Jin in "European dress." She is standing near a table and holds an object in her ri...
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Two Girls and Woman Cutting and Drying Tea

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of a kneeling girl on the left who is cutting tea on a wooden board on the ground. A girl and a woman stand working on a woven m...
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Two Girls Working with Paper

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two girls in kimonos kneeling on a floor, bent over a low table working with paper. Behind them is a decorated folded room sc...
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Three Women Seated Around a Table

Date: 1910
Description: The women sit at a table on which are papers with Asiatic lettering, along with a teapot and teacups. Behind the group are sliding wooden door panels. In f...
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Payday for Army

Date: 1961
Description: South Vietnamese soldiers gathered around a table where a woman, the "paymistress," sits with payroll sheets. The men are collecting their pay in the villa...

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