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| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian Bedouin boy with a soldier. The boy is pledging that he will kill his father "with joy" if the father should serve the French forces in the gue... |
| Date: | 03 18 1912 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five Jamaican women on the road to market carrying baskets of goods on their heads. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Members of Commander Atillio Gatti's tenth African expedition taking photographs from the top of an International truck. Native Africans are standing, hold... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Scene from the popular television mini-series "Roots," showing actor LeVar Burton in chains portraying the slave Kunte Kinte, who had recently arrived on a... |
| Date: | 09 10 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 10 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A community leadership workshop session, August-September, at Highlander Folk School. Elizabeth Brinkman, Germany, in background in a flower dress; obscure... |
| Date: | 09 04 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mabel and Ebenezer Iwuagwu of Owerri, Nigeria, dressed in Nigerian garb worn on special occasions. They were reunited after five years apart. E... |
| Date: | 10 04 1956 |
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| Description: | African students (left to right): Joseph Abrefa Ansah and Eugene Quaynor have dinner with Prof. Keith R. and Mary L. Symon and their four children, James, ... |
| Date: | 10 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Representatives of overseas students' organizations were greeted by University President Conrad Elvehjem, Vice-Pres. Fred Harrington, and Prof. Jonathon Cu... |
| Date: | 03 11 1927 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 23 1927 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1960 |
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| Description: | Five children pose in front of an "African" village they have built out of packing boxes at St. Stephen's Lutheran church Bible School. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing in a doorway with her right hand resting on the head of a small girl. Both of them are wearing traditional dress with head scarves. The... |
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