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[American and Japanese sailors]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04546.154 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1899 Pagination: 1 cabinet card Height: 17.5 cm, Width: 12 cm Order a Copy

Insciption on verso lists the name, "Gary C. Little (Yonkers, NY). Sergt. Astachi (Nagasaki, Japan). W. Kendall Brown (Nagasaki) 1899.

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