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McDrum Drug Company

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Description: Customers pose at the soda fountain counter. Clerks are behind the counter.
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Tailor at his Sewing Machine

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Description: A tailor sews a military uniform in his ship at the Massanutten Military Academy, with finished uniforms folded on the table behind him.
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Charles Sherrod and Carl Braden

Date: 04 27 1963
Description: Charles Sherrod and Carl Braden looking over a "Time for Action" paper.
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"Romance of the Reaper" Film Still

Date: 1929
Description: Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ...
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Forge Shop in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Cyrus McCormick and his Mother in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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"Jo Anderson" in Forge Shop Scene

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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"Cyrus McCormick" and "Jo Anderson" in Forge Scene

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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James Dorman Davidson Portrait

Date: 1880
Description: James Dorman Davidson (1810-1882) sits in profile in a plush chair for a studio portrait in front of a backdrop. He is wearing a wide hat, suit jacket, bow...
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John Brady

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of John Brady of Virginia, son of Captain Samuel Brady. Half-length, facing front with torso turned slightly to right.
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Henry E. Allen

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Henry E. Allen, Company A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery.
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John Schofield

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Major General John McAllister Schofield. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was commissioned as a major in the Miss...
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Oyster Shucking

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Description: Men shucking oysters while standing in stalls in a building. Caption reads: "Oyster Schucking, Norfolk, VA."
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Robert E. Lee

Date: 1895
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of General Robert E. Lee.
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General Ward at the United States Naval Hospital

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Description: Interior of the general ward at the United States Naval Hospital, established in 1834 on the original site of Fort Nelson. Patients sit in chairs or lie in...
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Collis P. Huntington Memorial Library

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Description: Interior of a small reading room at Collis P. Huntington Memorial Library, built in 1903. A woman sits at a reference desk on the left, and other people re...
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Portrait of General Robert E. Lee

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Description: Portrait of General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). The original photograph taken in 1865 is located at Washington and Lee University.
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"Indian Buffalo Hunt"

Date: 1907
Description: View of the statue, "Indian Buffalo Hunt," by Henry Bush-Brown. The sculpture was exhibited at the Jamestown Exposition.
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Jim Lehrer

Date: 04 07 2011
Description: An on-set portrait of PBS NewsHour co-anchor Jim Lehrer.
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Lieutenant Albert T. Lamson

Date: 1863
Description: Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Lieutenant Albert Lamson, taken at Falmouth, Virginia. Lamson is posed, in military uniform, seated and holding a sword ...

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