1951-52
Army WAC - profile

1951-52
Army WAC - three quarter profile

1951-52
Army bunk, mosquito netting

1951-52
"Everytime it rains (average 200 days a year) you have to walk through this" [mud, tracks]


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"Here is one of my prizes. This has the typical road, houses, terrain, fields, rice paddies and the farmer carrying the honey buckets out to his field. I can smell the slop in those buckets from here! The House with the tile roof is the "Honcho" or…

1951-52
"School girls in their back yard, Towel was probably a present from a G.I. for an older sister"


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"Seeking sea shells at the she sore [sic]"

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Young boy trying to loosen kite? stuck in tree

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Four artists painting

1951-52
"The dark blue blouses with white strips on cuff and around neck flap are the school girl costume. This is a Japanese influence. As you see the girls on the left are doing all possible to hide their faces from the camera, the others too dumbfounded…

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"This is my best picture. It explains itself." [Grandmother with little boy on back, girl climbing onto porch]

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Squatting man in conical star hat

1951-52
Portrait of elderly man in dark kimono, straw hat and cane


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"Old Fisherman"

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"This is a typical shoe store. The owner makes the shoes out of blocks of wood stacked at right, and lines in the back of the shop. The children were all trying to watch me without getting their pictures taken, but had to bring out the baby boy, as…

1951-52
Portrait of father (in lion cloth) and child

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Portraits of elderly lady holding grandchild - both smiling

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"This old Mamason was none too happy to be cornered for a picture, but after I took it I bowed and thanked her in Japanese and she gave me a big toothless smile. If you look closely you can see the tattoos on her hands and wrists that are placed on…

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"This old lady has the tattooed hands and was smoking a cigarette with the holder which turns up at the end. They are very common here. Also from her behavior while I was taking the picture. I decided she was also quite familiar with saki. The lady…

1951-52
"Notice tattoos on her wrist, an old marrying custom"

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"The Cobbler"

1951-52
"All sawing is done like this"


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"This is a seed store. The old gent has made himself a pair of bifocals by taping two pairs of glasses together. Hi is using the far vision through the top pai only now, but back to his newspapers he will look through both. Notice the cans in the…

1951-52
"Ain't this the cutest little feller on the lower right! Also notice how unconcerned the woman is of the bundle on her head, with a bottle in it too! You won't find any stockings in the picture."

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"Notice the barber is brushing hair off his arm with a paint brush"

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"In the very middle of town"

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Woman carrying large pumpkin on head

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"These are squid drying as we would dry clothes on a line. In a week or month or so they will be stacked like shingles in a market. Children eat them like lolipops"

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Woman carrying basket of fish on head

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Fish catch

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[Fishermen carrying nets, robes, baskets]

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Fishermen with nets, standing next to boat in water

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Fisherman, fisherwives

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"Haggling over the price of fish"

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"The fisherman's wife weighing the fish"

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"Waiting for her basket of fish to be weighed. Notice gold teeth to show she was worth something. Seersucker dress at right stolen WAC uniform"



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Fisherman with catch in basket wading into shore

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Fishing boat with fishermen & women

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Fishing boat being steered by poles

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"Stevedores"

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Two fishermen carrying cargo

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Smiling elderly gentleman, missing front teeth

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"This is a church building being constructed. Notice how all the scaffolding is bound together with thongs rather than nailed or bolted"

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Motor with pulley, men talking, truck

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"This boat weighs about 500 lbs"

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Fishermen carrying boat on shoulders

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A fisherman works in his boat at the dry dock, using his push-stick to balance his boat in the shallow water. The interior wood panels that take up the majority of this image are made of the same piece of wood, shaped to fit this boat precisely.…

1951-52
Four men on the dock

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A man on a boat just offshore.

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A man coming to shore. Children swimming in background

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Four men on a boat

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A structure large structure across the street. Clothes out to dry. Notice the power lines that crisscross above.

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Small kitten sleeps on wooden floor

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Thatched roof structure; sleeping dog in foreground.

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Thatched roof house surrounded by dense foliage.

1951-52
Open design, corrugated roof visible, electric lights, Coke calendar on wall, tea set on floor.