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Description: | Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard. |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | African American farmer pulling a trailer with a Farmall Cub tractor on McQueen Smith Farms. The trailer is loaded with large sacks, and a child is sitting... |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | View of an African American farmer cultivating a cotton field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super MD tractor. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator ... |
Date: | 06 14 1921 |
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Description: | Farmers harvesting wheat with an International 8-16 HP kerosene tractor and two Deering seven foot binders on the farm of W.P. Ridley in Maury County. Thre... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Farm scene of foreman watching five farm hands reaping grain with cradles as children, women and field hands help gather it into bundles. |
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Description: | Farmer hauling corn to market with an ox-driven wagon. Original caption notes that oxen were used considerably in the south for motive power. |
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: | 1918 |
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Description: | Two African American farmers in a field operating horse-drawn walking plows. |
Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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Description: | Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall. |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Farm worker dumping cotton from an International Harvester cotton picker into a trailer pulled by a Farmall M tractor. |
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Description: | Henry Aaron poses in uniform on a baseball field. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Family posed at board fence of brick house. Two woman, one holding a parasol, are standing in front of the fence on the left near the gate. Two men are sta... |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Two construction workers jackhammer through a sidewalk at the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | Bob Moses, Julian Bond, Curtis (Hayes) Muhammad, Willie Peacock, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe on Steptoe's farm. |
Date: | 05 07 1955 |
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Description: | Girl Scout Phyllis Sanders of Madison gathering firewood for cooking lunch during a one day Roundup of the Girl Scouts, Brownies, and Intermediates of Dist... |
Date: | 08 1912 |
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Description: | Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road. |
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Description: | Portrait of Thomas Greene, seated outdoors in a chair, holding a cane. There is a fence and trees in the background. |
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