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| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Destruction of Columbia after General Sherman's men burned the town near the end of the Civil War. Plate 53 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of commercial area of the city, taken after General Sherman marched through. Most of the buildings appear to be intact, but one of the build... |
| Date: | 03 22 1912 |
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| Description: | Two young girls standing with their arms around each other in the debris-strewn yard of a run-down home. The original caption identifies the location as th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from cobblestone street of a woman wearing a skirt and head scarf moving a barrel of discarded vegetables in an alley. Probably taken near an outdoor ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of a vacant lot littered with garbage and weeds in a residential area. Across the street in the background are what appears to be a row of apartment b... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a farmhouse, windmill, and an adjacent barn, all standing in a dilapidated yard. A partially collapsed fence is in the foreground, and wha... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Interior view down a hallway at the Courtland Hotel. The walls are covered with peeling wallpaper and the floor is made of patterned tile. The hotel was us... |
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| Description: | View of a water pump near the door of a dilapidated house, overgrown with vines. |
| Date: | 10 1930 |
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| Description: | View across a road and field of several rundown farm buildings located near a farmhouse. The image was used to illustre: "poor farm buildings." |
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| Description: | View across river of several houses and other buildings standing at the edge of the Chippewa River. One building has stilts supporting the back porch over ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | The house built by Charles A. Grignon between 1837 and 1839 for Mary Meade, his Pennsylvania bride. Mrs. Grignon and her family are standing in front of th... |
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| Description: | A man steers a horse-drawn carriage down an alley as two others look on from a doorway. The photograph was taken in Saint George, Bermuda. |
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| Description: | Ruins of a Mormon cabin built of squared logs. A harbor is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Bombed street and Catholic Church in Phat Diem, North Vietnam. American journalist David Schoenbrun, who visited the city in August 1967, reported that the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the slave quarters at West Point Plantation. Copyright 1910 by Fleming & Bryant, Brunswick, GA. |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | A street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland. In his scrapbook, journalist Alvin Steinkopf, who took the picture, noted that conditions were f... |
| Date: | 04 28 1925 |
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| Description: | View across a rural road of farm buildings in a state of disrepair. |
| Date: | 04 06 1926 |
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| Description: | View across road of a deteriorating barn and a few sheds. In the background is a young child standing in the yard of a farmhouse. Original caption reads, "... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar... |
| Date: | 04 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall at 118 Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Boulevard). The building was three windows wide... |
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