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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A view of the cottage with large trees around it, and a stone wall in the front yard. Some windows appear shattered. Wooden pallets are stacked in the fron... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Destruction of Columbia after General Sherman's men burned the town near the end of the Civil War. Plate 53 |
| Date: | 03 22 1912 |
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| Description: | Two young girls standing with their arms around each other in the debris-strewn yard of a run-down home. The original caption identifies the location as th... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A small child is seated on a porch while a woman stands in the doorway. "Yards turn to mudd [sic] when it rains — children must play on broken and rotting ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two boys stand in a wet dirt road in the foreground. In the background is a house with a pile of objects in the yard, including an automobile, a door, and ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A woman and a child sit on the front porch of a house. This building houses 8 people in two rooms. Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. Non... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "B. Shelly indicates hydrants which is sole supply of water to two households, nine persons ages 84, 76, 63, 41, 26, 12, 11, 5, 3. Boards are necessary to ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from below of an old barn. Partially deconstructed, with only the roof, base, and framework intact. A man is standing on top of the roof removing the ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Man posing on a horse-drawn mower in front of the ruins of a building surrounded by a fence. The building is probably a church as there are wreaths on grav... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man on a horse-drawn mower. In the background are the ruins of a large building, probably a church. |
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