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| Description: | Candid portrait of Hilo Hattie (born Clarissa "Clara" Haili), who was a Hawaiian musician, dancer, actress and comedian. There is a guitar on the ground ne... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A young indigenous woman wearing a flower in her hair poses with an older woman who is balancing a basket on her head on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea... |
| Date: | 08 24 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of six young indigenous women posed seated on the ground. They are wearing grass skirts and flowers in their hair. The woman in front is holding a ... |
| Date: | 02 25 1945 |
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| 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). ... |
| Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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| Description: | A Fita Fita Guard poses in his uniform of red cap, white skivvy shirt and white lava lava (a Samoan kilt). Shoes are not worn. The Fita Fita Guards are a s... |
| Date: | 03 02 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Indigenous villagers pose with Robert Doyle (7th from left) and NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific.... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A group of women wearing green Polynesian dance costumes are dancing on a stage at the Holiday Folk Festival. A group of musicians are playing drums on the... |
| Date: | 09 17 1954 |
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| 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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