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Women With Cherry Blossoms, Japan
Photograph by Eliza R. Scidmore
In a tinted black-and-white photograph dating to the 1910s, women pose with cherry blossoms in Japan.
Photographer Eliza Scidmore served as the National Geographic Society's first female writer and board member and played a pivotal role in bringing the now beloved cherry trees to Washington, D.C.'s Potomac Park and Tidal Basin.