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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | International Model A-4 truck delivering heating oil to residential home in Vancouver, British Columbia, 1933. Truck was owned by Watkins-Winram Coal Co. ... |
| Date: | 12 19 1936 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr... |
| Date: | 05 15 1933 |
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| Description: | Jenny Justo, 921 Spring Street, saying goodbye to her dog before leaving for a year in the Milwaukee jail. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Squalid, littered alley. Tire tracks run through the mud between wooden buildings. |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates outside her home with four of the Little Rock Nine. The students are Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Melba Pattillo, and Thelma Mothershed. |
| Date: | 05 29 1958 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates, an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957, looking throu... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | The Little Rock home of Daisy and L.C. Bates, showing their front window after a stone had been thrown through the window. Grates have been placed on this ... |
| Date: | 10 15 1956 |
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| Description: | Daisy and L.C. Bates with two men and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cross that they found in their yard. Because this event preceded the integration crisis of 1957 ... |
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| Description: | In a field with houses in the background, four men are gathered around what appears to be a campfire, from which smoke is visible. Two men are sitting, two... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Four Truax barracks apartment neighbors who rescued Walter Alburn and two of his children from the Alburn apartment after a kerosene explosion and resultin... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A group of men wearing heavy coats and hats ride on an International truck with snowplow attached. They are driving through heavy snow on a residential str... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A large group of men wearing winter coats, hats, and gloves stand on or near an International truck outfitted with a snow plow. Men are also sitting and st... |
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| Description: | Showing the effects of a large winter snow at Bloch's Maryland flat. |
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| Description: | Couple posing outside. Harold Gauer's brother Norman with his "exotic oriental" dance wife, Wong Lee. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 05 08 2009 |
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| Description: | James, a recycling man, poses with his wagon of recyclables. |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms peeks from behind Jerome Williams, who is holding a cigarette. They are standing outdoors near a street. |
| 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: | 05 05 1969 |
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| Description: | A man is speaking through a megaphone to a large crowd from the steps of the Mifflin Street Co-op, 32 North Bassett Street. Possibly Attorney Melvin Greenb... |
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