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| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the ... |
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| Description: | People assembled at storefront along the street of a small town in "poor farming country." |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| Date: | 02 25 1915 |
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| Description: | Five impoverished and disheveled-looking African American children sitting on the ground near their home. Original caption reads: "These five little Negro ... |
| Date: | 02 13 1915 |
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| 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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| Description: | Dirty and disheveled boy with no shoes standing in the street with a baby carriage. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ... |
| Date: | 02 21 1915 |
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| Description: | Three men pulling a Maxwell Model 25 touring automobile through a muddy road. Original caption reads: "On the road from Union Springs, and Tuskeegee, Ala.,... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Squalid, littered alley. Tire tracks run through the mud between wooden buildings. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing long overcoats and hats are standing directly behind a large tractor or stationary engine being used to power a belt-driven ensilage cutter... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Three men in an automobile near what may be a flooded area, or possibly an overflowed pond or river. Barren trees stand in the pool's water. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | John Esch, sitting behind the wheel of an automobile, adjusting his eyeglasses while smoking a tobacco pipe. Photograph taken for International Harvester's... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and smoking a tobacco pipe using a rag to wipe the windshield of an automobile. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man reaching for loose matches carried in his pocket while holding a tobacco pipe in his other hand. The photograph was taken on International Harvester'... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man lies in bed while smoking a pipe. A pouch of tobacco labeled: "Smoking Mixture" and a box of Red Top matches rest nearby on the blanket. |
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