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  • Costumed women dressed in ethnic hats and dresses stand on La Ronda, one of the oldest streets in Quito where tourists often pass by.
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  • Ecuadorian women weave toquilla straw Panama hats from the plaited leaves of a palm-like plant. The friends work together making hats that exported are exported. Hat-weaving evolved in the early to mid-1600s, became known in the early 1800s and more popular in the mid-19th century when miners of the California Gold Rush traveled to California. ThIs was followed by Theodore Roosevelt who was photographed wearing one in 1906 visiting the Panama Canal.
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  • A woman knits a pink bootie for a baby at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. Women seeking refuge are given a place to sleep and eat, medical attention and help to relocate safely with their children.
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  • Three woman wearing felt fedoras laugh and watch friends at a community gathering in a rural, mountain area of Ecuador. The traditional hats as similar to the Cholita or bowler hats worn by women in Bolivia.
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  • Mother Superior joins other nuns for a tasty breakfast at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent. Women in the cloistered Carmelite religious order in Quito have jobs and duties performed throughout the monastery daily.
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  • Nuns enjoy coffee and tea for breakfast at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent where women live in silence and behind walls in downtown, historic Quito.
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  • Nuns at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent, gather with their dog that all the women love.
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  • Nuns take communion from a priest through  a metal fence that divides the women from the public during morning mass in Quito's cloistered, Convento de Carmen Alto.
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  • Women watch fishermen returning in a canoe.
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  • Women removing the scales from red mullet at a fish processing plant.
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  • Women workers move dirt out of a giant reservoir of water.
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  • Police guard the streets in Quito while indigenous women look on.
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  • Mother Superior's dog greets her in the morning in the courtyard of Convento de Carmen Alto. The convent is home to cloistered nuns in the center of the historic district of Quito.
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  • A nun makes wafers for communion at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent in the Colonial historic district of Quito.
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  • Mother Superior leads prayer during morning mass at Convento de Carmen Alto.
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  • Mother Superior's dogs greets her in the morning in the courtyard of Convento de Carmen Alto. The cloistered convent is located in the historic, Colonial district of Quito.
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  • A client admires her braid, flowers in her hair and freshly applied makeup at Princess de Gales, a beauty school in downtown Quito.
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  • Otavolan woman in traditional dress in the Northern Sierra.
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  • Miss Ecuador puts on make up and does her hair in her home.
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  • A woman rides a stationery bicycle for exercise behind a glass-walled workout area outside with a view at a country club in a residential section of Quito.
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  • A bride in her long, white gown carefully walks up the stairway of her family home in Quito before leaving for the wedding ceremony at a church.
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  • A bride dressed in a traditional gown looks out the window of her family's home before leaving for the church on her wedding day.
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  • A woman is hooked up to a machine for a passive exercise in a beauty spa.
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  • A patient waits for doctors and nurses to prepare before having plastic surgery in a hospital.
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  • Miss Ecuador drives a car to a public event.
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  • Pin Oak Farm owner and breeder Josephine Abercrombie ran a prominent 4,000 acre farm near Versailles. A horse lover in her childhood, she bred of highly-trained successful race horses. Racing season brings on a flurry of parties and social events. Abercrombie was philanthropic and highly respected. She died in 2022.
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  • Pin Oak Farm owner and breeder Josephine Abercrombie ran a prominent 4,000 acre  farm near Versailles. A horse lover in her childhood, she brought sugar cubes to her thoroughbreds hoping for a kiss on the cheek from a gentle mare and foal. Abercrombie died in 2022.
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  • Students work on clients hair and makeup to learn skills at Princess de Gales, a beauty school in Quito.
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  • Cloistered Catholic nuns ride in a modern glass elevator added to the 16th century Convento de Carmen Alto. The Carmelite order was forced to settle in Quito after destruction of their monastery in a 1698 earthquake. Older nuns appreciate the convenience to climbing stairs to attend prayer in the chapel.
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  • Cloistered nuns enter the cathedral for a brief private morning prayer and return through fenced gates to Convento de Carmen Alto in Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Morning prayers in the chapel bring a group of cloistered nuns together at Convento de Carmen Alto in Quito.
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  • A dress shop owner in Old Town, the historical district of Quito. Colorful dresses are not to be touched unless a shopper wants to buy.
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  • A guest watches the bride and the groom arrive for the reception at a hacienda near Quito.
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  • Following the wedding, a bride wearing a traditional, white gown and lace veil, watches while life-sized cutouts of herself and the groom arrive for the reception at a hacienda near Quito.
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  • A family churns butter while watching television.
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  • A typical meal of fish is prepared.
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  • A crowd enjoying drinks at a bar.
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  • Friends come together at The Riggin Shack, a general store that is one of a few businesses in Coffman Cove, Alaska, population 200. The community on Prince of Wales Island was settled as a logging town and people stayed although the industry declined. The community offers services for visitors that include a fuel station, liquor store, lodging, guiding for hunters and fishermen, a library with Internet service and outdoor tours.
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  • A volunteer takes a feral cat to the vet.
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  • A volunteer takes feral cats to the vet.
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  • Young people dance to music at a bar in a district full of clubs that attract night life in Quito.
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  • Workers at the Burela Bonita Festival.
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  • A refugee camp outside the gates of Harappa.
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  • Woman with Laron syndrome and her son at the mall.
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  • An indigenous woman uses the phone in a public office.
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