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Ella Watson dressing her grandchildren at home in Washington, D.C., photographed by Gordon Parks in 1942.Black-and-white portrait of a young Chinese girl in traditional dress and an embroidered cap, her hair in a long braid, Chinatown, San Francisco, between 1896 and 1906.A Spanish-American family eating dinner in Chamisal, New Mexico, photographed by Russell Lee in 1940.
Black couples dancing in a crowded juke joint outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in 1939.Children riding home from school in a donkey cart in Saint Croix, photographed by Jack Delano in 1941.An unidentified Women's Army Corps soldier gives sweets to local North African children, around 1944.Black-and-white photograph of Native Hawaiian children playing in the sand at Waikīkī beach, near Honolulu, 1919.

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