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Two Boys

Date: 1930
Description: Two unidentified boys sitting on a wooden crate with their feet resting on a larger wooden box. The smiling boy on the left is holding a toy car. There is ...
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The Milwaukee Boat House

Date: 1930
Description: The Edmund B. Gustorf house, built in the 1920's in the shape of a boat, sitting on a low rise at the corner of East Hampshire Street (foreground left) and...
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Fire in Milwaukee

Date: 1930
Description: A fireman is climbing a tall ladder supported on the rear wall of a two-story brick building. There are other firemen on the ground and two men observing. ...
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New York Harbor

Date: 1930
Description: A ship with "U.S.A." painted on the side is steaming past the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
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Streetcar

Date: 1920
Description: A man is standing on the rear of a small streetcar in Japan. There is a utility pole and several two-story buildings on the left.
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Fulton Street Fish Market

Date: 1930
Description: The bed of a truck, barrels and crates are hold fishing and other seafood tended by workers at a fish market. Also pictured are hanging scales and a canvas...
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Yokohama Street

Date: 1922
Description: Leonore Middleton, center left, is posing standing along a bridge railing wearing a long winter coat and hat. Other people in traditional Japanese attire a...
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Stone Cutter's Workshop

Date: 1922
Description: A stone pagoda, basins and figures are displayed in front of a building with a corrugated metal roof. The wheel of a cart is in the foreground, left. On t...
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Fishing Boats

Date: 1922
Description: Fishing boats casting reflections on the calm waters of one of Japan's inland seas.
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Leonore with Parasol

Date: 1930
Description: Leonore Middleton posing outdoors, wearing a large hat with a Japanese parasol resting on her left shoulder. She is wearing a light-colored dress with a be...
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Cherry Blossom Festival

Date: 1921
Description: Leonore Middleton, in hat, facing camera, posing with two unidentified women, left, near two small market stalls under blooming cherry trees along a roadwa...
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Boys at Shrine

Date: 1922
Description: Four young boys standing, with a fifth child sitting, on the top step in front of a Japanese torii, or gate. There is a stone lantern at far right. On the ...
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The Hagins and The Middletons

Date: 05 18 1921
Description: Two well-dressed couples, Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Hagin, left, and Mr. and Mrs. Forest Middleton, reclining on a lawn with shrubbery behind them.
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Earthquake Damage

Date: 04 1922
Description: Elevated view of a crowd of men, some in traditional Japanese dress, and some in western-style clothing, gathered around a damaged building on a corner. Th...

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