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Going to Market

Date: 03 18 1912
Description: Group portrait of five Jamaican women on the road to market carrying baskets of goods on their heads.
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South African McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Dealership

Date: 1899
Description: Four men and a dog posing along the storefront of a South African McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership owned by C. North & Son.
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Africans Ride in Gatti Truck

Date: 1939
Description: Native Africans ride in the back of an International truck during Commander Atillio Gatti's tenth African expedition. The Expedition was sponsored by Inter...
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Explorers Photographing in the African Congo

Date: 1939
Description: Members of Commander Atillio Gatti's tenth African expedition taking photographs from the top of an International truck. Native Africans are standing, hold...
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C.N. King in Africa with the "Truck that Crossed the Sahara"

Date: 09 10 1928
Description: Clyde N. King standing next to an International Special Delivery truck at the "Mission in Buta" in the Belgian Congo. Three men are sitting on elephants ne...
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"Truck that Crossed the Sahara" in Africa

Date: 09 10 1928
Description: Men on elephants near an International Special Delivery truck at the "Mission in Buta" in the Belgian Congo. Most of the men ride on elephants while one s...
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Community Leadership Workshop

Date: 08 1955
Description: A community leadership workshop session, August-September, at Highlander Folk School. Elizabeth Brinkman, Germany, in background in a flower dress; obscure...
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Saving Rent Control

Date: 09 04 1949
Description: Emma Milton (left) of Omaha, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Union local 60, is seen here circulating a petition to save the rent control institute...
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Traveling By Hammock

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Description: View of a white man reclining in a pole strung hammock, pith helmet by his side. The hammock pole is being carried by two Africans and savannah is in the b...
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Illustration of An Angolian Prisoner

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Description: View of an Angolian prisoner with hands and feet bound in a wooden brace. Caption reads, "These methods were used to capture and hold the prisoners which w...
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Red Crescent Worker Bandaging Chest

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker bandages a National Liberation Front member's chest outdoors. He wears a Red Crescent arm band to id...
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International Truck Advertising Proof Featuring Commander Gatti

Date: 1949
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color photographs relating to an expedition to Africa by explorer Attilio Gatti. Includes images of n...
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Allée de Pyramides

Date: 1890
Description: View down road lined with trees in Egypt. A group of Egyptians are standing and sitting between the trees and the river, and travelers on the road are walk...
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Sphinx de Gizeh

Date: 1890
Description: The Sphinx at Giza in Egypt. Three men are standing or sitting on the shoulder of the Sphinx, and several men are sitting in the shade below with two camel...
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Violet Lee Dousman and Fellow Travelers and Guides

Date: 1896
Description: A group portrait of Violet Lee Dousman (back row, 3rd from left) and her fellow travelers, guides and Egyptians on a trip to Giza, Egypt. Five people are r...
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Ali Bacha Looking South

Date: 03 11 1927
Description: Ali Bacha looking south. Three indigenous men work on an archaeological excavation in Algeria, Africa. On the left a man examines material in a wheelbarrow...
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Ensemble of the Diggings at Ali Bacha

Date: 03 23 1927
Description: Ensemble of diggings at Ali Bacha. View looking downhill towards three men working on an archaeological excavation in Algeria, Africa. On the left an indig...
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Four People Carrying Packs

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two men and two women carrying packs. One of the women and one of the men are squatting on the ground. All four are naked abo...
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Algerian Woman

Date: 1930
Description: A woman is posing sitting in the doorway of a brick building. She has facial tattoos and is wearing a head scarf over her braided hair.
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Seated Sheik

Date: 1930
Description: A turbanned man, identified as a Sheik, is sitting on a patterned rug on the ground in front of a doorway. He is wearing a red robe with elaborate gold tri...

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