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International D-30 Bus Picking Up Students

Date: 1938
Description: International D-30 bus with Picayune body picking up students for school. There is an automobile in the yard in the background. This bus was equipped with ...
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Farrington Family

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Description: Family group posing in front of wooden farm buildings. A man is sitting in a wagon pulled by a team of two horses. An older woman, a young girl, and three ...
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Beekeepers Standing in Apiary

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Description: A man and a boy pose standing in apiary surrounded by beehives. The man is holding a smoker.
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Students Hanging Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of children are hanging an effigy of an African-American man in a dead tree, creating a mock lynching. One of the boys is sitting on a limb of the ...
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Children Burning Hanging Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project burn the effigy of a black man." The mock-lynching was staged by a group of students in th...

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