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Townspeople Assembled in front of One-Room Schoolhouse

Date: 02 15 1915
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...
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African American Farmer on Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
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...
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Group Portrait of African Americans in front of Building

Date: 02 17 1915
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.
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Zula Belle Walker with Poultry Flock

Date: 1917
Description: Six year-old Zula Belle Walker of McDonald Chapel, Jefferson County, feeding her mongrel flock of poultry.
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Elbert Blow Farm

Date: 03 17 1915
Description: Elbert Blow farm, with three men and a young child posing. Shows short horn cattle, the barnyard, and home.
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Girl Feeding Chicks

Date: 03 1914
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 ...
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Plowing Around Stumps

Date: 02 24 1915
Description: Left side view of Earle Morris using a walking plow pulled by a mule in a field pitted with tree stumps.
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Boy with Mule and Plow

Date: 1915
Description: Three-quarter rear view from right of a boy with a mule and walking plow near a tree stump in a field.
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J.H. Gilchrist with Granddaughter in Cotton Field

Date: 1915
Description: J.H. Gilchrist, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and long coat, is standing in a cotton field on his farm to show his granddaughter, Lelia Sykes, th...
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New Hope School Renovation

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A group of students and teachers stands behind teams of oxen pulling a wagon through a wooded area in front of New Hope School during its renovation after ...
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Group at Alabama Barbecue Pit

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children gathered around an outdoor barbecue pit as meat roasts. The barbecue took place at Louis Frank Sessions' farm during a ...
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Corn Harvest at IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 1924
Description: Men on an International Harvester demonstration farm are feeding corn into a husker-shredder as a boy is holding a burlap bag to the machine to catch the k...
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Mrs. Gillespie Feeding Chickens

Date: 06 1930
Description: Mrs. Gillespie using a metal bucket to feed a flock of White Leghorn chickens outside a farm building on an International Harvester demonstration farm. A s...
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Old and New School Buildings in Alabama

Date: 1915
Description: Alabama school buildings. A young boy stands on the steps of the new building. Original caption reads, "A comparison of old and new school buildings at Ple...
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Children Clearing Land for New School Playground

Date: 03 13 1915
Description: Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b...
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Students Standing Outside Schoolhouse

Date: 1915
Description: Class of students standing outside a rural school known as the Blackjack School.
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Elbert Blow Farmhouse

Date: 1915
Description: Farmhouse of the Elbert Blow family with a Ford roadster.
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Alabama Home and Farm

Date: 05 1902
Description: View over fence and garden towards an African American home and farm. The small home is standing along a tree line with the fenced-in garden stretching alo...
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Portrait of Holsey

Date: 05 1902
Description: Outdoor portrait of Holsey sitting on a tree stump in a fenced-in pasture.
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Standing Next to the Roses

Date: 05 1902
Description: Earnie and Russel Goetsch standing next to the corner of a fence with roses climbing up the side. Russel has several of the flowers tucked under the sides ...

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