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Mobile Bay Beach

Date: 03 05 1915
Description: Two well-dressed men gazing thoughtfully at the ocean at Mobile Bay beach.
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Agricultural Extension Lecture to Schoolchildren

Date: 02 1915
Description: International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department employee J.E. Waggoner delivers a lecture to children and farmers assembled at Providence School....
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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
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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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Prison Convict Hauls Wood with Ox-Driven Wagon

Date: 03 08 1915
Description: View of a prisoner, who has a wooden leg, hauling "lighter" wood from the pine woods and Turpentine Orchard to camp with an ox-drawn wagon. Original captio...
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Former Slave Sitting on Porch

Date: 02 13 1915
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...
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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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Flooded Rural Road in Alabama

Date: 03 05 1915
Description: Three men are driving on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "In going from Fairhope, Ala. to Point Clear, Ala. the road in many places was found...
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Flooded Road in Rural Alabama

Date: 02 13 1915
Description: Two men traveling in a horse-drawn wagon on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "Example of road building in Lamar County on the Vernon-Columbus ...
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Men Pull Maxwell Automobile on Muddy Road

Date: 02 21 1915
Description: Three men pulling a Maxwell Model 25 touring automobile through a muddy road. Original caption reads: "On the road from Union Springs, and Tuskeegee, Ala.,...
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Cotton Market

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A group of wagons filled with cotton bales in the street at market.
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Men Sitting on Pier

Date: 1915
Description: Two men sit on a pier with a beach and several homes in the background.
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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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Man Driving Wagon with Team of Mules

Date: 02 19 1915
Description: A man is driving a team of mules pulling a wagon down a commercial street.
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Feeding Yard at Chestnut Hills Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Men and cattle in the feeding yard near a barn on E.A. O'Neil's Chesnut Hills Farm.
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Automobile Near Water

Date: 1915
Description: Three men in an automobile near what may be a flooded area, or possibly an overflowed pond or river. Barren trees stand in the pool's water.
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Lindsey Reese in Abandoned Field

Date: 02 17 1915
Description: Lindsey Reese, dressed in a hat and suit jacket, standing in an abandoned field. Several farm buildings are in the far background.
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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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Men with Cotton Bales

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A man sits on a bale of cotton piled on top of wooden boards in a field. Two men stand near him and another man or young boy sits on a bale in the backgrou...
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Lesson on Eradication of Cattle Tick

Date: 1915
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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