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A gravestone, inscribed "Tom Him," in a Chinese cemetery in Bakersfield, California. Over the years, the grounds were not maintained, many graves collapsed and the site was overgrown with weeds. In the 1950s, the Chinese community decided to move the graves - a total of 261 - to another resting place. Only forty-three of the remains could be identified. It took two years to complete the relocation.
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image/jpeg2000 Scanned with Epson Perfection V350 Photo Scanner as a 1200 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed into 8-bit, JPEG format and Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
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