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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a dock, as naval stores are being loaded on a ship. Workers are on board the ship and on the dock, surrounded by cargo. Caption reads: "Loading Nav... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Cedric Belfrage (center), exiled editor of the "National Guardian," at a party for Paul Robeson. The man on the left is Canon Stanley Evans. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Paul Robeson reading a copy of the leftist newspaper, the "National Guardian". |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A young man is shown riding a mule. He is transporting harvested sugar cane. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A man stands before the greenhouse on the campus of Woodstock College in Woodstock, Maryland. A religious statue is in front of the building's entrance. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Humorous posed photograph of a woman in a wagon being attacked by an alligator. The alligator is stuffed and propped against the side of the wagon. The wom... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A candid group portrait of well-dressed people featuring Henry Wallace and Daisy Bates. L.C. Bates stands to the left of Daisy. |
| 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: | 05 1924 |
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| Description: | View of an outdoor gathering of an African American community. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Male and female students pose for a group portrait, with their teacher standing at right, in front of Banneker High School. The structure is made of brick ... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Mamie Arms holds her infant son Lewis Arms. On the back is an inscription to "Ona x Walter". |
| Date: | 05 19 1929 |
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| Description: | Bernard Arms stands atop a post on a farm. |
| Date: | 06 03 1929 |
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| Description: | Bernard Arms is standing high on a scaffold attached to a house, while two women from the family of his neighbors, the Nofsingers, are standing below him o... |
| Date: | 06 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Bernard Arms (standing), uncle of Lewis Arms, shares a picnic with his neighbors Mr. and Mrs. (Betsy) Nofsinger. |
| Date: | 12 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms wearing a fedora at the age of 15. |
| Date: | 12 25 1942 |
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| Description: | hand-colored portrait of 15-year-old Lewis Arms wearing a neck scarf and military uniform hat. |
| Date: | 04 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses with his sister and other children on Easter Day. Front from left to right are Nedra Arms (sister) and John Hall. From left to right behin... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses outdoors with his mother Mamie (Arms) Hall. He is wearing his Navy uniform. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses in his Navy uniform holding a rifle on the day he graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms (center) poses with two navy buddies at Barbers Point Naval Air Station near Pearl Harbor. |
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