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Josephine Baker and the two orphans, Akio and Janot, that she adopted in Japan, 1954

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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints Group Portraits
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1954
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Josephine Baker scrapbooks.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. Adopted Children
  2. Baker, Josephine, 1906 1975
  3. Children
  4. Intercountry Adoption
  5. Japan
  6. Orphans

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