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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: | 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: | 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... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of women and children gathered around a table outdoors. They appear to be serving food out of bowls and containers placed on a table. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across yard of a group of African American students from the North Alabama Baptist Academy gathered on the building's front steps for an outdoor group... |
| Date: | 03 03 1915 |
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| Description: | A large group of African American children stand with a sign reading: "Diversification of Livestock in Alabama" in front of the Montgomery State Normal Sch... |
| Date: | 03 02 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women, and children leaving an agricultural presentation by J.E. Hite at Haile's store. Hite, dressed in a hat and overcoat, is loading a r... |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women, and children gathered around an outdoor barbecue pit as meat roasts. The barbecue took place at Louis Frank Sessions' farm during a ... |
| Date: | 02 10 1915 |
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| Description: | Professor C.W. Farr standing on an elevated platform at the front of a classroom at the Burrell School while presenting on the subject of agricultural dive... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from back of classroom of Dr. W.B. Hinds pointing at a graph as he delivers an agricultural lecture on cotton to students seated at North Alabama Bapt... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | African-American students gathered in a room at what the original caption identifies as the "Muskogee Colored High School." |
| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and young boy sweep yard with "brush broom" while another woman with two children looks on. Two additional women, possibly Agricultural Extension e... |
| Date: | 02 1915 |
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| Description: | Young African American woman sweeping front steps of a residence. Original caption reads: "the 'sedge brush' broom is used a great deal for light sweeping ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an African American family (probably Caroline Webb, Andrew Norris Webb Sr., and Andrew Norris Webb Jr.) in front of a painted backdrop. ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A page from a family photo album compiled and captioned by Andrew Webb Jr., with three images of his mother, Caroline Webb, and an image of two cats. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Construction crew and observers standing on a scaffold. Trees, a wooden tripod with a block and tackle and the roof of a house are visible in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | An African American woman and man pose together outdoors. Abaché, also known as Clara Turner, and Kazoola, also known as Cudjoe Lewis, were formerly enslav... |
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