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| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| Date: | 02 25 1915 |
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| Description: | Five impoverished and disheveled-looking African American children sitting on the ground near their home. Original caption reads: "These five little Negro ... |
| Date: | 02 13 1915 |
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| Description: | African-American man and woman on the front porch of a rural home. The unidentified woman is retrieving water from a well, and the man, J.R. Dean, is sitti... |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ... |
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| Description: | Snapshot taken by Sigurd Olson of refugees scavenging in military trash bins. Although the location is not identified, it is probably in or near Berlin. |
| 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: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and young boy sweep yard with "brush broom" while another woman with two children looks on. Two additional women, possibly Agricultural Extension e... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A woman and two girls look on as a water hydrant is turned on by the woman. "Two families, 6 people, share this hydrant." “Row upon row of dilapidated bu... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Children stand on the front steps and porch of a home. Many of the children are holding balloons. Laundry hangs from a clothesline on the porch. “Row upo... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A woman stands next to a home near a woodpile. Behind the trees in the background, more homes are visible. "Houses are built in rows and cover the hill fro... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman and four children sing in front of a makeshift tent that is used as their home. |
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| Description: | Open air dining for civilians without money in the Friedenau-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin along the the Kaiserplatz. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A family of squatters standing in front of a shack, in a camp outside of Santiago, Chile. The father is holding a child in his arms and the mother is stand... |
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| Description: | George Wiley is sitting around a desk with other members of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). The man who is sitting on the right is talking... |
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