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Mother and Child at Children's Camp

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Description: Children's camp at Highlander Folk School. A mother helps a baby put his shoe on.
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Girl Wringing Out Shorts

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Description: A young girl helps her mother with laundry by wringing out a pair of shorts next to a wash basin.
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John Dalwin Children

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Description: Group portrait of the children of John Dalwin at Highlander Folk School.
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Highlander Film Center

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Description: Highlander Film Center.
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Young Citizenship Group Sewing

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Description: Johns Island students discuss sewing and the first young citizenship group at Highlander Folk School.
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Farmers Union Members by Fertilizer Co-op

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Description: Private building of Farmers Union Fertilizer Co-op, with three men in work clothes sitting in front. Junior Marlow on right.
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A Meeting at Highlander

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Description: A meeting at Highlander Folk School. Guy Carawan is holding a banjo on far left. Septima Clark is standing third from the left. Matt Sturgis, holding an ac...
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Writers Workshop at Highlander

Date: 1940
Description: A late 1930s early 1940s writers workshop at Highlander run by Leon Wilson. Charlie Ferguson, Editor, Reader's Digest, working with Mrs. Joe Kelly Stockt...
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Female Rubber Workers

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Description: Rubber Workers at Highlander. Catherine Winston depicted in the center.
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Myles Horton Searching for Doodle Bugs

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Description: Myles Horton doodling for doodle bugs outside the Highlander Library.
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Meetings for Mr. Bannerman

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Description: Public meetings for Mr. Bannerman, extreme right, an educational worker from Garner. Center with white suit, Scott Bates; Labor King General, Highlander F...
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Health Seminar Filming

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Description: Highlander Film Center preparing a health seminar for Alabama.
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Playing a Record at Highlander

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Description: CIO workshop at Highlander Folk School, featuring George Guernsey, extreme right. A group of five men gathered around a record player.
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CIO Meeting at Highlander

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Description: Three men smoking cigarettes around a table, as part of a CIO meeting at Highlander Folk School.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Men

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Description: Group portrait of men near the Highlander Folk School visitor housing.
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Woman with Towel Helping Another Woman

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Description: A smiling woman with a towel is swabbing the side of a woman's head at a CIO or Amalgamated Transit Union workshop at Highlander Folk School. Another woman...
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Packinghouse Staff Workshop at Highlander

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Description: Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School. Secretary-Treasurer Hathaway, left; and Vice-President Russell Lasley, right, standing.
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Packinghouse Staff Workshop at Highlander

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Description: Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Singing a Hymn at Highlander

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Description: A group of people singing a religious hymn at Highlander Folk School.
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Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers Session

Date: 1947
Description: Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers session at Highlander. Connie Anderson, Educational Director for the organization, is standing in the center.

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