1944, The Shopkeeper. Photograph by Lt. Col. Clinton C. Millett, M.D. in Kunming China where he was stationed as an army doctor during WWII. This photograph was one of 130 exhibited at the Yunnan Provincial Museum in May, 2004. More than 500,000 people came to view the colorful images of their lost history.

2004, The Shopkeepers’s Children. Photograph by Krystal Millett-Garrison, Dr. Millett’s great-granddaughter. The shopkeeper’s children, Wu Gui Zheng and Wu Yian Shan, were told by a neighbor that a picture of a man who looked like their father was in the exhibition. The two were overcome with emotion when they saw the first color photograph of their father. The shopkeeper was an herb doctor who ran the Bai Hu Tan herb-medicine shop. At the museum, his daughter shared stories of Dr. Millett’s visits and memories of him photographing her father.

1944, Boy With Baskets. Photograph by Lt. Col. Clinton C. Millett, M.D. in Kunming China where he was stationed as an army doctor during WWII. This photograph was one of 130 exhibited at the Yunnan Provincial Museum in May, 2004. More than 500,000 people came to view the colorful images of their lost history.

2004, Woman With Baskets. Photograph by Krystal Millett-Garrison, Dr. Millett’s great-granddaughter. Today, in the busy streets of Kunming goods are carried by trucks, cars, bicycles, carts, scooters, and baskets.

1944, Old Kunming. Photographed by Lt. Col. Clinton C. Millett, M.D. in Kunming China where he was stationed as an army doctor during WWII. This photograph was one of 130 exhibited at the Yunnan Provincial Museum in May, 2004. More than 500,000 people came to view the colorful images of their lost history.

2004, Modern Kunming. Photograph by Krystal Millett-Garrison, Dr. Millett’s great-grand-daughter. Today, Kunming is a modern city with 3.5 million people. Surrounded by mountains, Kunming is filled with skyscrapers, people, construction, vehicles, businesses, scooters and thousands of bicycles.

1944, Crowded Street. Photograph by Lt. Col. Clinton C. Millett, M.D. in Kunming China where he was stationed as an army doctor during WWII. This photograph was one of 130 exhibited at the Yunnan Provincial Museum in May, 2004. More than 500,000 people came to view the colorful images of their lost history.

2004, Crowded Street. Photograph by Krystal Millett-Garrison, Dr. Millett’s great-granddaughter. This image was taken on the opening day of the Colorful Kunming exhibit. The crowd shown in this picture are people waiting to get in to the museum to view the color photographs from 1944.

1944, Temple Drummer. Photograph by Lt. Col. Clinton C. Millett, M.D. in Kunming China where he was stationed as an army doctor during WWII. This photograph was one of 130 exhibited at the Yunnan Provincial Museum in May, 2004. More than 500,000 people came to view the colorful images of their lost history.

2004, Temple Drummer. Photograph by Krystal Millett-Garrison, Dr. Millett’s great-granddaughter. This re-enactment photograph was taken at the Temple of 500 Gods. It is the same drum photographed in both pictures.

1944, Flower Market. Photograph by Lt. Col. Clinton C. Millett, M.D. in Kunming China where he was stationed as an army doctor during WWII. This photograph was one of 130 exhibited at the Yunnan Provincial Museum in May, 2004. More than 500,000 people came to view the colorful images of their lost history.

2004, Flower Market. Photograph by Jin Fei Bao. In this image Krystal Millett-Garrison, Dr. Millett’s great-granddaughter is posed for a re-enactment of the photograph taken sixty years ago in the same flower market.

1944, Generations. Photograph by Lt. Col. Clinton C. Millett, M.D. in Kunming China where he was stationed as an army doctor during WWII. This photograph was one of 130 exhibited at the Yunnan Provincial Museum in May, 2004. More than 500,000 people came to view the colorful images of their lost history.

2004, Generations. Photograph by Krystal Millett-Garrison, Dr. Millett’s great-granddaughter. An elderly woman is escorted by her great-grandson. The two are members of the head family of the Tuanjie Minority Village.

1944, Children. Photograph by Lt. Col. Clinton C. Millett, M.D. in Kunming China where he was stationed as an army doctor during WWII. The photographed children are believed to be Chao and Liu, two orphans who accompanied Dr. Millett on many of his Kunming outings. This photograph was one of 130 exhibited at the Yunnan Provincial Museum in May, 2004. During the exhibit more than 500,000 people came to view the colorful images of their lost history.

2004, Children. Photograph by Krystal Millett-Garrison, Dr. Millett’s great-granddaughter. Required to learn English in school, young children are anxious to practice their speaking skills with foreigners. Hello!

1944, Traffic. Photograph by Lt. Col. Clinton C. Millett, M.D. in Kunming China where he was stationed as an army doctor during WWII. This photograph was one of 130 exhibited at the Yunnan Provincial Museum in May, 2004. More than 500,000 people came to view the colorful images of their lost history.

2004, Traffic. Photograph by Krystal Millett-Garrison, Dr. Millett’s great-granddaughter. With a population of 3.5 million people, the streets of Kunming are always busy. With the congested flow of traffic, bicycles seem just as fast a automobiles.

1944, Temple of 500 Gods. Photograph by Lt. Col. Clinton C. Millett, M.D. in Kunming China where he was stationed as an army doctor during WWII. This photograph was one of 130 exhibited at the Yunnan Provincial Museum in May, 2004. More than 500,000 people came to view the colorful images of their lost history.

2004, Temple of 500 Gods. Photograph by Krystal Millett-Garrison, Dr. Millett’s great-granddaughter. Gregg, Dr. Millett’s son, is in front of the repainted statues of the Gods to re-enact the photograph taken 60 years earlier.