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Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates

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Description: Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates, apparently wearing press badges, standing outdoors talking with an unidentified man. L.C. Bates, who is wearing a camera, is ap...
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L.C. Bates

Date: 1957
Description: L.C. Bates seated at a desk handling paperwork.
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Daisy and L.C. Bates with Henry Wallace

Date: 1948
Description: A candid group portrait of well-dressed people featuring Henry Wallace and Daisy Bates. L.C. Bates stands to the left of Daisy.
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Daisy Bates with School Children

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Description: Daisy Bates signs autographs for school children who attended the Freedom Rally at Memorial High School where Bates, "the First Lady of Little Rock," was a...
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Bates Wheel Tractor

Date: 1921
Description: Advertisement for the Bates Model H Wheel Tractor featuring an illustration with a caption reading: "— the most dependable wheel tractor in America." Bates...
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Bates Steel Mule Tractor

Date: 1929
Description: Front and rear views of the Bates 40 Steel Mule crawler tractor. The caption beneath the top photograph reads: "1/4 front view of Bates 40 'Steel Mule.' No...
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Daisy Bates at State Press Office

Date: 09 27 1957
Description: Daisy Bates standing in the doorway of the weekly Arkansas State Press, the newspaper founded by Mrs. Bates and her husband, L.C. Bates. As a result...
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Daisy Bates

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Description: Portrait of Daisy Bates wearing a dark dress and beaded earrings and necklace.
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Daisy and L.C. Bates

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Description: Informal portrait of Daisy and L.C. Bates seated in front of a curtain.
Book or Pamphlet

Bates Steel Mule Model 35

Date: 1933
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Bates Steel Mule Model 35 crawler tractor. An illustration of men using the tractors in a field is featured, along...
Poster

Poster for Guy Bates Post in "The Bridge"

Date: 1909
Description: Color lithograph poster featuring a full-length portrait of the actor Guy Bates Post in outdoor gear. The bottom caption reads "Guy Bates Post in 'The Brid...
Photograph

Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 1906
Description: The monoplane glider built and flown by Carl S. Bates of Clear Lake, Iowa. During the previous year Bates had built a bi-plane glider.
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Bates Steel Mule Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Bates Steel Mule featuring a photograph at left of a man using the tractor. A headline reads: "Why the Bates Steel Mule is the most e...
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Daisy Bates

Date: 04 1963
Description: Daisy Bates seated at a desk in the NAACP office.
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Daisy Bates

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Description: Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957.
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L.C. Bates

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of L.C. Bates, editor and publisher of the the "Arkansas State Press," a crusading Little Rock newspaper and the husband of the Ark...
Photograph

Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 03 1909
Description: Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake...
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Daisy Bates at Sheraton Plaza Podium

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Description: Daisy Bates speaking at the podium at a breakfast given in her honor at the Sheraton Plaza.
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Daisy Bates and Ralph Bunche

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Description: Daisy Bates shakes hands with Ralph J. Bunch, Secretary General of United Nations. A man wearing a headset is behind them.
Book or Pamphlet

Bates Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Bates Model D Steel Mule tractor featuring an illustration of the tractor and a title reading: "The End of the Sea...

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