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Ida Pruitt sitting with woman and two dogs, by an unknown photographer, 1935-1938. Judging by photographs in that book, the woman is evidently Ning Lao T'ai T'ai, whose as-told-to-Pruitt autobiography "A Daughter of Han" shows Ning sitting with Pruitt in similar
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