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The women are dressed nicely and are wearing hats. They stand on either side of the man, who is wearing a suit. The woman on the right is holding papers in her left hand. On verso: "The $100,000 Smile". The background around the individuals heads is blacked out. On June 2, 1914, the Y.W.C.A. of San Jose started their 10 day building campaign with a goal to raise $100,000. They succeeded and raised $105,310 which they used to build a three story building on Second and San Antonio Streets in San Jose, California. From: Smith, p. 25-29. 1914-06 Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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