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ARCHIVE: Asheville, North Carolina - 27 September 2024

1. Various of the streets in Asheville under heavy floodwaters with debris due to Hurricane Helene

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Albany, New York – 21 May 2025

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Corbosiero, Meteorology Professor, University at Albany: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++

“This year, that forecasts are not for a hyperactive season as we’ve seen for some of our recent seasons, but we know with a warming climate, forecasting above the long-term mean is always a safe bet. That even if it's not a hyperactive season, even if it was a normal season, all it takes is one storm to make land fall for us to be in some really concerning times, especially considering all the proposed cuts that are being sort of tossed around right now.”

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ARCHIVE: Orlando, Florida - 10 October 2024

3. Wide of a flooded street

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Boulder, Colorado – 21 May 2025

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lori Peek, Professor, University of Colorado Boulder ++PARTIALLY COVERED++

“Now at this particular moment, the emergency management system is under particular strain. Already we know that thousands of personnel have been lost from FEMA and other partner agencies that are deeply involved in the preparedness and response phases of emergencies. It's not clear whether federal funds are going to be flowing into these communities. So, I am concerned.”

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ARCHIVE: Orlando, Florida - 10 October 2024

5 . Various of emergency responders walking in floodwaters

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ARCHIVE: Swannanoa, North Carolina - 1 October 2024

6. Various of search and rescue dog and handler searching for victims

7. Wide of a damaged home

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Albany, New York – 21 May 2025

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Corbosiero, meteorology professor, University at Albany: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++

“It's hard just to fathom a hurricane response without the government providing that assistance. Especially with something on the scale of a Milton, right? Or a Helene, like what do states even do in that situation? The potentially active season and storms getting more intense with climate change, coupled with the proposed already the cuts to NOAA, lack of staffing and lack of data going into models and then moving into a season where potentially there won't be a FEMA response, I think we don't know what will happen because we've never been in this situation before. We know what might happen and that's what we're fearful about.”

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ARCHIVE: Lake Lure, North Carolina - 2 October 2024

9. Various of debris in Lake Lure and damaged structures after Hurricane Helene

STORYLINE:

With predictions for a busy hurricane season beginning Sunday, experts in storms and disasters are worried about something potentially as chaotic as the swirling winds: Massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to hurricanes.

Experts are alarmed over the large-scale staff reductions, travel and training restrictions and grant cut-offs since President Donald Trump took office in both the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which prepares for and responds to hurricanes, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which tracks and forecasts them.

Representatives of both NOAA and FEMA say the agencies are prepared.

FEMA canceled various emergency management trainings this spring, moved others online, and restricted travel to important coordination events like the National Hurricane Conference. They have since resumed some trainings.

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Catania, Italy - 31 May 2025

1. Drone shot of the Freedom Flotilla yacht, the “Madleen,” anchored off the port of Catania ++MUTE++

2. Pan of dinghies around the the “Madleen," activists attaching a Palestinian flag to the front of the yacht

3. Various drone shots of the “Madleen” yacht off the coast of Catania ++MUTE++

4. Pan of Port San Giovanni Li Cuti where activists will hold a gathering ahead of their departure for Gaza on Sunday

STORYLINE:

Activists from a human rights organization, trying to bring aid to the Gaza Strip, gathered in the Italian island of Sicily on Saturday a day before their departure for the Mideast.

Their last attempt to bring aid to Gaza was foiled by a drone attack off the coast of Malta.

This time the group will be using the yacht “Madleen” for the trip. On Saturday activists raised a Palestinian flag on the bow of the ship, anchored in Catania, off the Sicilian coast.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is scheduled to take part in the events Saturday.

Earlier this month drones attacked the Conscience, another of the group’s ships carrying aid to Gaza in international waters off the coast of Malta.

A nearby tugboat responded to a distress call from the Conscience, which authorities said experienced a fire that was brought under control.

The vessel was carrying 12 crew members and four civilians, the Maltese government said, adding that those aboard refused to leave the ship.

The group was safe and no serious injuries were reported, it said.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition accused Israel of attacking its ship.

The group did not provide evidence for that claim or to show that the fire was caused by drones, but in a video it shared an explosion could be heard. Another video showed a fire blazing.

The Israeli army did not respond to a request for comment.

Hunger and malnutrition have mounted among Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians since Israel barred entry of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies nearly three months ago, allowing a trickle of aid in only the past two weeks.

For months, experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are on the brink of famine.

Israel eased its blockade on the territory a few weeks ago, but the U.N. humanitarian aid office said Friday that deliveries into Gaza remain severely restricted.

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Hong Kong - 31 May 2025

1. Various of dragon boat races in Aberdeen

2. Wide of spectators watching the races

3. Pan of Michael Chung and his teammates cheering and waiting to board a dragon boat for a race

4. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Michael Chung, dragon boat racer:

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“Teamwork. It’s teamwork. Members of the whole team need to work together and to cooperate so that we row in the same rhythm and it will bring a good result.”

5. Various of races

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Monika Tavernier, dragon boat racer:

++PARTLY OVER SHOT 7 AND 8++

"It’s a great exercise, cause you exercise everything, your arms, your legs, your core. If you do it the right way, it’s really the whole body, so it’s a lot of fun and a very little risk to get hurt."

7. Tavernier and her teammates on a dragon boat rowing to the start line for a race

8. Various of participants splashing water on each other, a tradition to bless for good health in the year

STORYLINE:

Hong Kong is getting into the water this Saturday, for dragon boat races all around the territory.

Racers at Aberdeen in Hong Kong compete in traditional rowing boats.

The community in this area has a long history of fishing and seagoing business.

It’s a public holiday to mark a moment from Chinese history when a famous official died in a river, and the story says that locals tried to throw dumplings into the water to stop fish from eating his body.

For Michael Chung, who has been rowing dragon boats for thirty years, teamwork is the key to a good experience.

“Members of the whole team need to work together and to cooperate so that we row in the same rhythm and it will bring a good result.”

It’s Monika Tavernier’s second year in the race.

For her, rowing the traditional boat is a great workout.

“You exercise everything, your arms, your legs, your core. If you do it the right way, it’s really the whole body, so it’s a lot of fun and a very little risk to get hurt.”

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Hong Kong - 31 May 2025

1. Various of dragon boat races in Aberdeen

2. Wide of spectators watching the races

3. Pan of Michael Chung and his teammates cheering up and waiting to board a dragon boat for a race

4. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Michael Chung, dragon boat racer:

“Teamwork. It’s teamwork. Members of the whole team need to work together and to cooperate so that we row in the same rhythm and it will bring a good result.”

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Monika Tavernier, dragon boat racer:

"It’s a great exercise, cause you exercise everything, your arms, your legs, your core. If you do it the right way, it’s really the whole body, so it’s a lot of fun and a very little risk to get hurt."

6. Tavernier and her teammates on a dragon boat rowing to the start line for a race

7. Various of participants splashing water on each other, a tradition to bless for good health in the year

STORYLINE:

Hong Kong is getting into the water this Saturday, for dragon boat races all around the territory.

Racers at Aberdeen in Hong Kong compete in traditional rowing boats.

The community in this area has a long history of fishing and seagoing business.

It’s a public holiday to mark a moment from Chinese history when a famous official died in a river, and the story says that locals tried to throw dumplings into the water to stop fish from eating his body.

For Michael Chung, who has been rowing dragon boats for thirty years, teamwork is the key to a good experience.

“Members of the whole team need to work together and to cooperate so that we row in the same rhythm and it will bring a good result.”

It’s Monika Tavernier’s second year in the race.

For her, rowing the traditional boat is a great workout.

“You exercise everything, your arms, your legs, your core. If you do it the right way, it’s really the whole body, so it’s a lot of fun and a very little risk to get hurt.”

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Southern Israel - 31 May 2025

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1. Longshot of smoke rising over northern Gaza Strip

STORYLINE:

A large plume of smoke was seen rising above the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday as Israel continues its offensive in enclave.

Meanwhile, Hamas said it was reviewing a new Israeli-approved ceasefire proposal after giving it an initial cool response.

President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy had expressed optimism about brokering an agreement which could halt the war, allow more aid into Gaza, and return more of the 58 hostages still held by Hamas, around a third of whom are alive.

Experts say a nearly three-month Israeli blockade of Gaza — slightly eased in recent days — has pushed the population of roughly 2 million Palestinians to the brink of famine.

Israel’s war in Gaza has killed over 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its tally.

The war began with Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which left around 1,200 dead.

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Lisbon, Portugal - 30 May 2025

1. Tilt up of infant clothing with fake blood lining up the street of Carmo, in downtown Lisbon

2. Various of clothing and toys tainted with red paint

3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Julieta Almeida, Parents for Peace collective:

++SOUNDBITE PARTLY OVER SHOTS 2 AND 4, 5, 6++

“I think people feel increasingly the need to do something. We are here on one hand to raise awareness and of course Children’s Day is a date in which we cannot forget the suffering the deep suffering of the children in Gaza. It’s not just the dead, we account for the dead, for the injured but it’s not just them, all children in Gaza are suffering, all children are going through a deep trauma, no child can go to school. So to celebrate the International Day of Children without recalling this suffering would be wrong.”

4. Tourists and locals looking

5. Tilt from sign reading (English): “The children of Gaza are just like yours! Ceasefire now!”

6. Clothes

7. Doll

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Butler, father of 5-year-old who contributed to the artwork:

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“Well we've been following the genocide in Gaza particularly since October 7th, but also the situation in Palestine for decades. And it just keeps getting worse and worse. Maeve has been to many different manifestations and she understands what’s going on, as much as a 5-year-old can. And we want to do what we can, although our efforts are quite small. She donated some clothing to be part of this action today.”

12. Wide of street

13. Mid of installation

14. Child looking

15. Sign reading (Portuguese): "Safe Palestine, the right to be a child! Let's stop Israel"

16. Wide of art installation

17. Close of toy

STORYLINE:

Tourists and locals walking in downtown Lisbon had a glimpse of the devastating reality unfolding in Gaza.

For a few hours on Friday afternoon, an art installation made of toys and infants' clothing aimed at drawing attention to the thousands of children killed in the past months of the conflict.

The action was organised by civil society groups to mark International Children’s Day that in Portugal is celebrated on Sunday, June 1.

For days organizers called for donations of children’s clothing and toys to be able to fill the entire Rua do Carmo, one of the most iconic streets of the historic downtown Lisbon.

Across the country, several other events were taking place to call for an immediate ceasefire.

The war in Gaza has been devastating for children.

More than 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its tally.

The war began when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking 250 hostages, some still in captivity in Gaza.

Organizers also referred to a recent figure announced by UNICEF. The UN children's agency reported that over 50,000 children have been killed or injured since October 2023.

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Singapore - 31 May 2025

1. Wide of plenary session

2. Mid of Richard Marles, Australian Deputy Prime Minister & Defense Minister, walking to podium

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Marles, Australian Deputy Prime Minister & Defense Minister:

“The commitment underscored by US Secretary of Defense Hegseth today, that the Indo-Pacific is the United States strategic priority is deeply welcomed. Reality is that there is no effective balance of power in this region, absent the United States. But we cannot leave it to the United States alone. Other countries must contribute to this balance as well and that includes Australia.”

4. Mid of Jose Ramos-Horta, Timor-Leste President and Bastian Giegerich, Director-General and Chief Executive of IISS

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Marles, Australian Deputy Prime Minister & Defense Minister:

“Through the largest peacetime increase in defense spending since the end of the Second World War, Australia is investing in a generational transformation of the ADF (Australian Defense Force) to ensure we are not only in a position to deter force projection against us, but also and perhaps even more importantly, to contribute to an effective regional balance where no state concludes that force is a viable way to achieve strategic goals.”

6. Wide of Marles

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Marles, Australian Deputy Prime Minister & Defense Minister:

"Dividing the Indo-Pacific into geo-strategic and geo-economic blocs would not only make us all poorer, it would make us more vulnerable to conflict. If opportunities are removed to become more prosperous through trade and investment between states, key incentives are also removed to keep the peace. Interdependence is no panacea but nor is securitization, which imposes only binary options and counterintuitively undermines the deterrence. Liberal trade matters. Trade has been the lifeblood of the Asian region, and the shock and disruption to trade from high tariffs has been costly and destabilizing.”

8. Wide of plenary session

STORYLINE:

Australia’s Defense Minister welcomed Saturday a renewed pledge by his U.S. counterpart that the Indo-Pacific is an American strategic priority.

Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a global security conference hosted by the International Institute for Security Studies in Singapore, Richard Marles also agreed that Australia and other nations in the region needed to do their part.

“Reality is that there is no effective balance of power in this region absent the United States, but we cannot leave it to the United States alone,” he said.

Still, Marles suggested the Trump administration’s aggressive trade policies were counterproductive.

“The shock and disruption to trade from high tariffs has been costly and destabilizing.”

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier reassured allies they will not be left alone to face increasing military and economic pressure from China.

He said Washington will bolster its defenses overseas to counter what the Pentagon sees as rapidly developing threats by Beijing, particularly in its aggressive stance toward Taiwan.

China has conducted numerous exercises to test what a blockade would look like of the self-governing island, which Beijing claims as its own and the U.S. has pledged to defend.

China has a stated goal of having its military have the capability to take Taiwan by force if necessary by 2027, a deadline that is seen by experts as more of an aspirational goal than a hard war deadline.

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Singapore - 31 May 2025

1. Wide of plenary session

2. Mid of Vietnamese Minister of National Defense General Phan Van Giang and Executive Chairman of International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Sir John Chipman

3. Mid of EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani

4. Kallas walking to podium

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kaja Kallas, EU foreign policy chief:

“North Korea directly contributes to the illegal aggression with soldiers, arms and ammunition. And China says it's neutral, but its dual use experts are fuelling Russia's war. When China and Russia speak of leading together, the change is not seen in 100 years and of revisions of the global security order. We should all be extremely worried.”

6. Various of audience

7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Gen Nakatani, Japanese Defense Minister:

“The rules-based international order is rapidly becoming hollowed out. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a violation of Article 2, paragraph 4 of the UN Charter, and the final decision of the International Tribunal of Arbitration in the South China Sea is being openly ignored. This situation threatens to undermine the effectiveness of international law, which is the prerequisite for a peaceful and stable international community.”

8. Mid of plenary session title reading (English): "Second plenary session, ensuring stability in a competitive world"

9. Wide of speakers

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kaja Kallas, EU foreign policy chief:

“Our security is very much interlinked and what we have to do for not the worst case scenario happening, is that we really need to defend the international law because that says it all. That is the umbrella that actually protects, especially, the smaller states.”

11. Various of panel

STORYLINE:

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday that the world should be "extremely worried" about Russia and China's relationship amid North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia in Ukraine.

"When China and Russia speak of leading together, the change is not seen in 100 years and of revisions of the global security order. We should all be extremely worried," Kallas said during a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a global security conference hosted by the International Institute for Security Studies, in Singapore.

Kallas added that European and Asian security were “very much interlinked" while speaking on a panel about ensuring global stability.

"Our security is very much interlinked and what we have to do for not the worst case scenario happening, is that we really need to defend the international law because that says it all," she said.

During the panel, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani also said that "the rules-based international order is rapidly becoming hollowed out" while referring to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as well as the increasing military and economic pressure from China seen within the region.

China has a stated goal of having its military have the capability to take Taiwan by force if necessary by 2027, a deadline that is seen by experts as more of an aspirational goal than a hard war deadline.

But China also has built sophisticated man-made islands in the South China Sea to support new military outposts and developed highly advanced hypersonic and space capabilities, which are driving the U.S. to create its own space-based “Golden Dome” missile defenses.

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Atlanta - 6 May 2025

1. Various of hairstylist braiding a client's hair

2. Mid of Black hair care products on display in a store

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanya Washington, Georgia State University law professor:

"The Black hair care business is like a $2.5 billion dollar industry and we know that a lot of the products are imported from China and other places that will be subject to tariffs and so there is an anticipated increase in the cost of those products that would include products that are applied to the hair as well as hair extensions, wigs."

4. Mid of wigs displayed on shelves

5. Wide of various Black hair products displayed on a store wall

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanya Washington, Georgia State University law professor:

"All of the beauty supply stores are likely to be affected. The budding industry of Black-owned beauty supplies are going to be affected more immediately and more adversely because they did not have the resources, many of them, to stock up on the supply of products in anticipation of this increase, the way some of the stores that have been in business for a longer period of time are able to do."

7. Mid of hairstylist braiding hair

8. Close up of Black hair care products on display

9. Various of natural hair stylist Dajiah Blackshear washing a client's hair in a salon

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dajiah Blackshear, Natural hair stylist:

"Hair is, you know, confidence, hair is self-esteem for a lot of people. Some people don't have a whole lot of options with their hair."

11. Mid of Blackshear washing a client's hair in a salon

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dajiah Blackshear, Natural hair stylist:

"I'm experiencing an influx in prices and products that I need, so there is no way around it and you know, just small things like a bottle of glue going from $8 to now $14.99 which is almost double the price -- that goes into my bottom line so when it comes to pricing my services and you know, bringing that to a client, I'm having to cover those costs on the back end and for a client, that can kind of be upsetting."

13. Mid of Blackshear washing a client's hair in a salon

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dajiah Blackshear, Natural hair stylist:

"Clients pay attention to where they're spending their money, you know, so when they're sitting in the chair and they're like, 'OK, my sew-in used to be $200, why is it $250 now?' You know, and I have to explain to them, you know, what's going on and have that conversation. Some people are OK with it, but for a lot of people, they're like, 'OK, I won't be seeing you for a little while. I'm gonna go have to find somebody that fits within my budget."

15. Mid of Blackshear applying product to a client's hair

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Curtis Morgan, Cosmetologist, wig-maker:

"For women of color, their hair is a reflection of their everyday life, so they want to be as professional and polished as possible, being that they work very significant jobs -- nurses, lawyers, doctors, teachers... so them having a professional look is important."

17. Mid of Blackshear washing a client's hair

18. SOUNDBITE (English) Curtis Morgan, Cosmetologist, wig-maker:

"Many clients have had the conversation with us the same way we're having the conversation with them about price raises -- they're having a conversation about how their life is in a new financial space and they may(be) cannot make a regular consistent appointment because they have to consider is this a necessity as much as it used to be?"

19. Mid of a person Morgan showcasing a wig in a store

21. Mid of Morgan handling a wig

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Atlanta - 6 May 2025

1. Various of natural hair stylist Dajiah Blackshear washing a client's hair in a salon

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dajiah Blackshear, Natural hair stylist:

"Hair is confidence, hair is self-esteem for a lot of people. Some people don't have a whole lot of options with their hair."

3. Various of a stylist braiding hair in a salon

4. Mid of hair care products on display

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanya Washington, Georgia State University Law Professor:

"The Black hair care business is like a 2.5 billion dollar industry and we know that a lot of the products are imported from China and other places that will be subject to tariffs and so there is an anticipated increase in the cost of those products that would include products that are applied to the hair, as well as hair extensions, wigs."

6. Close of hair care products on display

7. Mid of various hair extensions displayed on a wall

8. Mid of wigs displayed on a shelf

9. Mid of a Blackshear washing a client's hair

10. Mid of hair products on a production line

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dajiah Blackshear, Natural hair stylist:

"I'm experiencing an influx in prices in products that I need. You know, just small things like a bottle of glue going from $8 to now $14.99, which is almost double the prices. That goes into my bottom line. So when it comes to like, pricing my services and you know, bringing that to a client, I'm having to cover those costs on the back end."

12. Various of Blackshear applying product to a client's hair

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dajiah Blackshear, Natural hair stylist:

"Clients pay attention to where they're spending their money, you know, so, when they're sitting in the chair and they're like, 'OK, my sew-in used to be $200, why is it $250 now?' you know, and I have to explain to them, you know, what's going on and have that conversation. Some people are OK with it, but for a lot of people they're like, 'OK, I won't be seeing you for a little while. I'm gonna go have to find somebody that fits within my budget.'"

14. Various of stylists braiding hair

15. Close up of Black hair care products on display

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanya Washington, Georgia State University law professor:

"All of the beauty supply stores are likely to be affected. The budding industry of Black-owned beauty supplies are going to be affected more immediately and more adversely because they did not have the resources, many of them, to stock up on the supply of products in anticipation of this increase, the way some of the stores that have been in business for a longer period of time are able to do."

17. Various of shelves stocked with Black hair products

18. Tilt down of warehouse shelves stacked with boxes of hair products

19. Mid of a Blackshear washing a woman's hair

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Curtis Morgan, Cosmetologist, wig-maker:

"For women of color, their hair is a reflection of their everyday life. They want to be as professional and polished as possible, being that they work very significant jobs. Them having a professional look is important."

21. Various of a Morgan handling a wig in a salon

22. SOUNDBITE (English) Curtis Morgan, Cosmetologist, wig-maker:

"Many clients have had the conversation with us because they have to consider is this a necessity as much as it used to be?"

23. Mid of Morgan clearing items off shelf

24. SOUNDBITE (English) Curtis Morgan, Cosmetologist, wig-maker:

25. Close of Morgan working on a wig

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