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Waiting out the Rain

Date: 06 21 1987
Description: Shoppers take refuge in the open doorway of a shop during a downpour.
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Three Women Seated with Syl

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Description: Three women in long dresses sit on the front stoop of a house with Syl.
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Syl and Grandma in Front Stoop

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Description: A very young Syl wearing a wide brimmed hat stands holding hands with his grandmother on a front stoop. A bicycle is leaning up against the porch to the ri...
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Group Seated on Front Stoop

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Description: View over fence of a group of people and one dog seated on steps leading up to the door of a house. Syl is seated on the far right of the group wearing a h...
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Syl with Aunt Helen near Door

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Description: Aunt Helen and Syl stand bundled up against the cold just outside a door to a house with a snow-covered yard behind them.
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Connecticut Hall of Yale University

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Description: Engraving of Connecticut Hall, Yale's first permanent building, completed in 1752. The engraving shows a front view of the original Yale building, and a fe...
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The Elms

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Description: A group of adults and children sit on the porch of The Elms, a two-story house with an American flag flying from the porch roof. Tree stumps are in the fr...
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Happy Holidays

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Description: Color photographic holiday card from Governor and Mrs. Earl and family, governor of Wisconsin, 1983-1987. To the right it reads: "Happy Holidays" with "The...
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Sitting on a Sidewalk

Date: 1936
Description: Five people sitting on a sidewalk outside of a building. A woman stands on a stoop in the doorway.
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North Vietnam School

Date: 1967
Description: Kindergarten classroom in the North Vietnamese village of Phu Xa, showing the ditch in the center of the room that ran to the air raid shelter. Two men sta...
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Main Street

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Description: A posed group of townspeople stand outside storefronts on Main Street.
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Sullivan County Courthouse

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Description: View of the Sullivan County Courthouse, built in 1909. Three young boys read a newspaper on a park bench in front of the building while a man drinks from a...
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Residential Street Scene

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Description: View down a residential street with 'Cape Cod' architecture. The Pilgrim Monument, built between 1907 and 1910, looms in the background.
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Residential District

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Description: View of homes built closely together along a street in the residential district.
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Mason Street

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Description: View down Mason Street featuring Trinity Methodist Church at the Cedar Street intersection. The Gothic structure was built in 1898. Published by Parish &...
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Narrow Residential Lane

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Description: View of four men and a boy walking down a narrow lane lined with homes and a picket fence.
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Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street, lined with residences.
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Street Scene

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Description: People ride on horseback and in carriages down a dirt road. A long adobe building can be seen on the left.
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Public School Number Six

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Description: Children stand on the sidewalk outside Public School Number Six, a tall brick building on a city block.
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Central Ward School

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Description: Exterior of Central Ward School, a brick building featuring a central colonnaded tower. Children can be seen near the playground outside the school.

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