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Myles Horton Searching for Doodle Bugs

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Description: Myles Horton doodling for doodle bugs outside the Highlander Library.
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Health Seminar Filming

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Description: Highlander Film Center preparing a health seminar for Alabama.
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Woman with Towel Helping Another Woman

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Description: A smiling woman with a towel is swabbing the side of a woman's head at a CIO or Amalgamated Transit Union workshop at Highlander Folk School. Another woman...
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Stacked Logs Near Highlander

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Description: Two men wearing fedora hats are standing by stacked logs. One of the men is writing in a notebook.
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Two Women at CIO Session

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Description: Two women talking on a foliage covered bench as part of a CIO session at Highlander Folk School.
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Men's Locker Room at Highlander

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Description: A group of men, one smoking a cigarette, in the men's locker room at Highlander Folk School.
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Randall School Area

Date: 1928
Description: View of the Randall School area, showing special street traffic signs on the road at the school crossing. In addition there are numerous children visible o...
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Farmers Union Picnic

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Description: Women wearing patterned dresses at a Farmers Union Picnic at Highlander Folk School.
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Young Woman Looking Up

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Description: A young woman wearing a cross pendant looking up from a stack of paper.
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Woman in Kimono at Highlander

Date: 09 1959
Description: A woman wearing a kimono at Highlander Folk School.
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Second Ward School House

Date: 03 09 1881
Description: Stereograph of a wintery view of the Second Ward School House. A student stands at the edge of the fence line surrounding the school house.
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Elderly Woman in Highlander Library

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Description: An elderly woman in a straw sun hat reading a book in the Highlander Folk School Library.
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Man Sitting at Table

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Description: An unidentified African American man, wearing a torn sweater and a corduroy baseball cap, sitting at a table.
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Clambake at Civil Rights Workshop

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Description: Civil Rights workshop of Highlander participants partaking in an oyster feast on Johns Island.
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Mrs. Brewer's Class at Edisto Island

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Description: Mrs. Brewer teaching a citizenship class at Edisto Island. Septima Clark, far left.
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"What You Want"

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Description: A man is standing and writing a letter to a senator, with a similar, enlarged letter behind him. The body of this larger letter reads: "I will appreciate i...
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"TVA" Photomontage

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Description: A group of manual laborers are reading books near a tent. "TVA" [Tennessee Valley Authority] has been collaged over the image. Part of a series of Highland...
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The Farmers Union Bets On You!

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Description: A man is holding a baby in his lap, and the words: "The Farmers Union Bets on You" is collaged next to him. Part of a series of Highlander photomontages fr...
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Students Next to Highlander Entrance

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Description: A group of early Highlander Folk School students standing near the entrance sign.
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Pete Seeger at Highlander

Date: 1957
Description: Pete Seeger at Highlander Folk School, possibly at a 25th anniversary celebration, where he was in charge of music. Playing an Orpheum #1 open-back five st...

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