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Panamanian Women Grinding Corn

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women grinding corn at Yawissa, near the Chucunaque River in Panama. Two women wearing wrapped fabric around their waists are grindin...
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Panamanians Eating Dinner

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women and children eating dinner along the Chucunaque River. A woman in a jumpsuit holding a hat is watching Panamanian children eati...
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Two Indigenous Women

Date: 08 18 1943
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...
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Two Kiriwina Island Children

Date: 08 28 1943
Description: View looking up at an upset indigenous toddler wearing a banner around his middle with "1944" pasted on it. He is holding a pair of sunglasses and standing...
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"Windy City Kitty"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Mechanic Sergeant Raymond Smith of Ontario, Wisconsin, stands next to the nose art, "Windy City Kitty," depicting a naked woman in the "pin-up style" on th...
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Sun Bath on Buster Island

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: Two men enjoy a nude sun bath on Buster Island in the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific. The man on the right, wearing only boots, is...
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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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Posing By the Swimming Hole

Date: 10 24 1943
Description: Three officers of General Walter Krueger's staff stand on a log in front of a swimming hole located on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p...

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