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| Date: | 04 27 1963 |
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| Description: | Charles Sherrod and Carl Braden looking over a "Time for Action" paper. |
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| Description: | An advertising card for the National Freedmen's Savings & Trust Company, Norfolk, Virgina branch. |
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| Description: | The White House, an eighteenth century structure, was the residence of the Battell family. |
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| Description: | The guest house of Cora Brown, the first African American woman elected to a U.S. State Senate, with a table, chairs, and umbrella outside on the lawn. |
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| Description: | A tractor fitted with flanged wheels to run on rail track at Berkeley Machine Works Inc. |
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| Description: | Ford touring car altered and fitted with flanged wheels to run on track at Berkeley Machine Works Inc. The plate on the side of the car reads: "Motor Cars ... |
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| Description: | Ford touring car fitted with flanged wheels to run on track at Berkeley Machine Works Inc. Plate on driver's side of car near the running board reads: "Mot... |
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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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| Description: | A view of antlers on a table and chairs lined up around the meeting hall of the Elks Club, founded in 1868. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A large group of uniformed sailors pose while others distribute the mail at the United States Naval Training Station St. Helena, land found on the eastern ... |
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| Description: | Buildings, pedestrians on Granby Street at an intersection. Electrical street lighting arches above. Virginia National Bank, a Neo-Classical Revival buildi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Men walk past buildings along the sidewalk on Greenwoods Road. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | View of the U.S.S. Wisconsin docked during decommissioning ceremonies in preparation for its final cruise. A number of sailors can be seen on deck. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Ceremony beneath the guns on board the U.S.S. Wisconsin. A number of spectators and sailors are seated in the foreground, and uniformed sailors line... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | U.S.S. Wisconsin docked on the Hudson River at Norfolk, during decommissioning ceremonies. |
| Date: | 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Uniformed sailors gathered on the deck of the U.S.S. Wisconsin during decommissioning ceremonies. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Back cover of a booklet produced by the Square Turn Tractor Company to advertise the Square Turn farm tractor, featuring a photograph of the company's fact... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Frank Adams, a journalist and organizer. He is sitting at a desk and holding a pen. This was taken while he worked for The Virginian-Pilot |
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