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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Jefferson's Transfer Line, owned by Beverly Jefferson. Beverly Frederick Jefferson was the grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, being ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | "Racine County War Veterans Living and Dead." Composite of small oval head and shoulders portraits, consisting of about 100 Union soldiers, all identified.... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Beverly Jefferson, 1/16th African American, published in Madison Past and Present, 1852-1902, a 1902 book published by the Wisconsin State Jour... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American child (probably a girl) wearing a white dress. Text written on the back of the photog... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William, Sarah (probably Amelia), and Ollie Greene, three children of Thomas and Harriet Greene. The Greenes were settlers in the Pleasant Ridg... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men harvesting grain. One man is operating a grain binder, another man is standing near him, and a third man is sitting on one of the mules. In the b... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. On the right an African American girl and a Ca... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a group of three women and seven children sitting on the porch of a log cabin. The caption at top right corner reads: "On The Plantation." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A young man is shown riding a mule. He is transporting harvested sugar cane. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | African American vegetable vendor with a large basket of vegetables balanced on her head and another in the crook of her arm. Text on photograph reads "Veg... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is using two horses to pull a McCormick mower through a field, probably in or around Boston. Piles of what appear to be hay are in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Side view of a man operating a horse-drawn McCormick twine grain binder in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an African American boy dressed in the costume of a stereotypical newsboy. The child holds up a newspaper in one hand and holding a stac... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men with a horse-drawn mower in a field. One man is working with a hand implement in a pile of hay, and another is sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Composite view of a man sitting in front of a cabin, a boy riding a donkey, and a man driving an ox-drawn sledge. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A boy and a girl are sitting on a bench in front of a house near Cypress trees. A woman wearing a white dress is standing behind them. The girl is holding ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a family posed with slices of watermelon sitting in the yard near a log cabin. There is a large mortar and pestle in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two male factory workers look on as sisal fiber extends out of a finisher and piles in metal containers at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Six men in a field with two mule-drawn binders. Two of the men are sitting on the binders. Trees are in the background. |
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