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Sentry's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Department

Date: 02 14 1985
Description: A display of fruit and vegetables in the East Side Foods Sentry store.
Photograph

Post Office

Date: 01 13 1968
Description: Post Office workers in mail room.
Photograph

Winter Mail Delivery

Date: 02 15 1987
Description: A woman mail carrier pushes her cart with a full mailbag along a sidewalk edged by snowy lawns.
Photograph

Breaking the Blockade

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector....
Painting

The Blacksmith Shop

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Description: A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses.
Painting

Yellowstone Church

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Description: A depiction of the Yellowstone Church of rural Lafayette County, just a few miles from the Kammerude farm. The church is built from locally quarried limest...
Painting

Rural Free Delivery

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Description: A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi...
Painting

The Country Store

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Description: View of a country store in autumn. A man driving a horse-drawn wagon hauls full milkcans in the foreground and, to the right, several families are hauling ...
Photograph

Olga Petrova and Mahlon Hamilton rural scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a heavily retouched scene still for the silent drama "The Black Butterfly," Sonia Smirnov (played by Olga Petrova) and Alan Hall (Mahlon Hamilton) stand...
Photograph

"Porgy and Bess" Production Still

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Description: Production still from the film "Porgy and Bess." Porgy (Sidney Poitier) kneels on his cart which is pulled by a goat. He passes a group of men playing dice...
Poster

"Kočār do vīdně" (Carriage to Vienna) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Black and mustard yellow image of a carriage wheel in the bottom right corner and part of a face in the top left corner.
Photograph

Vang Brothers

Date: 1986
Description: Four brothers posing in and next to a shopping cart. Caption reads: "Bee Vang ended up in the lower berth, and his brothers, Sam and John, rode on top as a...
Photograph

Work Day

Date: 05 18 1989
Description: Two boys are sitting and standing next to a four-wheel utility vehicle that is hauling a cart of hay. They are facing a woman standing on the right who is ...
Photograph

Harness Races

Date: 09 1963
Description: Harness racing at a County Fair. The horses pulling sulkies are making the turn in front of the grandstand. Another building and trees are in the backgroun...

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