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T-40 TracTracTor

Date: 1938
Description: A man operates an International T-40 TracTracTor (crawler tractor). Original caption reads: "International T-40 TracTracTor equipped with bullgrader and us...
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Men Loading Logs onto Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Two men load logs from a clearing onto the bed of an International KB-5 Pulpwood Special truck owned by the Johnson-Manville Corporation. The truck had a 1...
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Family, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: A family poses for photographers documenting living conditions.

Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. None of the houses in the neighborhood...

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Two Boys in Street, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: Two boys stand in a wet dirt road in the foreground. In the background is a house with a pile of objects in the yard, including an automobile, a door, and ...
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Houses, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: Several houses along a dirt road. A person stands in the doorway of one house. "'Some roofs leak worse than others, but we all get wet inside when it rains...
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Children, Phelan's Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: Several children run down a dirt road. Houses are on either side of the road, and laundry hangs from a clothesline above them. The door visible to the left...
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Street Scene, Phelan's Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: A child walks across ditch on a plank walkway. On the street, children play with balloons while three men recline on the hood of a car.

“Row upon row of ...

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Men in Street, South Wall Street

Date: 1966
Description: Four men gathered outdoors. Two sit on stoops of houses while two stand in the dirt pathway. More homes are visible in the background. There is a garbage o...
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Young Man Using Outdoor Faucet, Griffin Alley

Date: 1966
Description: "This hydrant supplies ten families (sixteen persons) with water. Three of these persons are over sixty-five-years-old and live alone."

Griffin Alley hou...

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