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| Date: | 1975 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| 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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| Description: | Seated portrait of Edwin Hale Abbot, during his time as a practicing lawyer in Boston. Abbot was an attorney on the 1869 Alabama Claims. He later became di... |
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