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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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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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Alabama Black Community

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Description: Stilted houses on a block of an African American community in Alabama.
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North Alabama Baptist Academy

Date: 1915
Description: View across yard of a group of African American students from the North Alabama Baptist Academy gathered on the building's front steps for an outdoor group...
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Campaign Meeting

Date: 03 13 1915
Description: Judge Chamberlain standing near a visual aid which reads: "Agricultural Lecture Charts; Diversified Farming for Alabama," while presenting to a group of me...
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Gillespie Family at IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 06 1930
Description: Group portrait of Josh Gillespie sitting with his wife and children on the steps of a farmhouse. Gillespie was foreman at International Harvester's Montgom...
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Convict Laborers

Date: 1915
Description: A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand...
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Dauphin Island

Date: 1920
Description: A car is parked in front of "The Olive Dining Room." Several men sit or stand on the porch steps. There is a Coca-Cola sign on a small building in the back...
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Alabama Home

Date: 05 1902
Description: Alexander Krueger and E.S. Goetsch visiting a home in Shelby County, Alabama. The family, two women, two children, and a baby, are posing in front of the h...
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Home of Paul C. Goetsch

Date: 05 10 1902
Description: Ernst Goetsch, Paul C. Goetsch, and Alexander Krueger standing in front of the home of Paul C. Goetsch. Large trees surround the house.
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Paul C. Goetsch Home

Date: 05 1902
Description: Paul C. Goetsch and family posing in front of their home. Mrs. Paul C. Goetsch and Russel Goetsch are sitting on the steps of the front porch. Paul is hold...
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Goetsch Family with Cow

Date: 05 1902
Description: Goetsch family standing with a cow in front of the home of Paul C. Goetsch. From left to right are: Russel Goetsch, Paul C. Goetsch, Mrs. Paul C. Goetsch, ...

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