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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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | African American man sitting inside an agricultural display of corn, potatoes, canned goods and International Harvester agricultural lecture charts. A bann... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Eighteen man crew for the Union Pacific Silo Special Trip posing for a group portrait in front of railroad cars. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | African American worker assembling a wagon axle running gear while a co-worker is looking on at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. The factory wa... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | An African American worker driving a partially assembled International 8-16 tractor on an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Another... |
| Date: | 10 01 1912 |
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| Description: | African American wagon driver standing with a horse-drawn wagon parked on a city street. The man is likely an employee of International Harvester, possibly... |
| Date: | 03 08 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a prisoner, who has a wooden leg, hauling "lighter" wood from the pine woods and Turpentine Orchard to camp with an ox-drawn wagon. Original captio... |
| Date: | 02 25 1915 |
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| Description: | Five impoverished and disheveled-looking African American children sitting on the ground near their home. Original caption reads: "These five little Negro ... |
| 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: | 08 30 1913 |
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| Description: | John Kaminski and mechanic Jack Knight making mechanical repairs to Kaminski's plane during an emergency landing at High Point. Such events were guaranteed... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two African American farmers in a field operating horse-drawn walking plows. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | African American driver delivering a load of lumber with an International Model H semi-truck. The truck was owned by Farrar Lumber Company. The company was... |
| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, drove up to Milwaukee from his home in Chicago to watch the Vanderbilt Cup race on October 2, 1... |
| Date: | 08 1912 |
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| Description: | Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farmer L.C. Carter standing beside bales of cotton and a farm building. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three men unload an International truck owned by J.E. Vann and Company Wholesale Grocers. The truck is carrying bags and crates of merchandise and is parke... |
| Date: | 04 1914 |
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| Description: | Booker T. Washington stands flanked by Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones (left) and Jenkin Lloyd Jones (right) near the shore of a Madison lake. Washington, desc... |
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