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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: | 02 1915 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department employee J.E. Waggoner delivers a lecture to children and farmers assembled at Providence School.... |
| Date: | 02 15 1915 |
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| Description: | Townspeople and a Ford automobile in front of a one-room schoolhouse in rural Alabama. The original caption reads: "This school house at Alpine, Ala., is a... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | African American farmer pulling a trailer with a Farmall Cub tractor on McQueen Smith Farms. The trailer is loaded with large sacks, and a child is sitting... |
| 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 23 1915 |
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| Description: | Mrs. James M. Baker in her winter garden picking turnips. Original caption reads: "She was pulling some winter turnips which behind her were multiplying. I... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | "Kildare", home of Mary Virginia McCormick. A large crowd is gathered on the lawn in front of the house, possibly as part of a birthday celebration for Mar... |
| Date: | 02 1914 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a bonnet and apron kneeling in a field to milk a cow. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men sit on a pier with a beach and several homes in the background. |
| Date: | 03 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Elbert Blow farm, with three men and a young child posing. Shows short horn cattle, the barnyard, and home. |
| Date: | 04 29 1935 |
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| Description: | A woman outdoors next to a house standing over a large, black pot, possibly doing laundry. Four children are playing around the woman near the entrance. |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Civil rights leader Ed Nixon, and his wife, seated on the front porch of their home. |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Ezekiel Bell, his wife, and son Frederick posed outside his house. Bell was the chair of the Community Service Committee which was credited with the succe... |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | James Dombrowski, (left), executive director of SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, and Bishop Edgar A. Love, SCEF chairman, during a meeting. |
| Date: | 03 1914 |
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| Description: | A girl wearing a dress and boots is standing outdoors in a yard near a house to feed chickens and chicks. In the background on the left a child is playing ... |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Lindsey Reese, dressed in a hat and suit jacket, standing in an abandoned field. Several farm buildings are in the far background. |
| Date: | 02 23 1915 |
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| Description: | Bales of cotton stored in the middle of a damp dirt road. Houses or storefronts are on both sides of the road in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Front view of a farmhouse with rocking chairs on the front porch and trellises leaning against the railings. The house was part of an International Harvest... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women, and children sitting on wooden benches inside Cottage Hill School as they watch Professor P.G. Holden give a presentation on the era... |
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