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| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Bombed street and Catholic Church in Phat Diem, North Vietnam. American journalist David Schoenbrun, who visited the city in August 1967, reported that the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the slave quarters at West Point Plantation. Copyright 1910 by Fleming & Bryant, Brunswick, GA. |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | A street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland. In his scrapbook, journalist Alvin Steinkopf, who took the picture, noted that conditions were f... |
| Date: | 04 28 1925 |
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| Description: | View across a rural road of farm buildings in a state of disrepair. |
| Date: | 04 06 1926 |
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| Description: | View across road of a deteriorating barn and a few sheds. In the background is a young child standing in the yard of a farmhouse. Original caption reads, "... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of "The Ruins." A brick hotel (possibly the MLAKAR HOTEL) is behind and to the right of the old foundation. Various signs are pasted on ... |
| Date: | 04 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall at 118 Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Boulevard). The building was three windows wide... |
| Date: | 07 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Cemetery caretaker M.F. Chapman points to an undeveloped area west of the veterans' section at Forest Hill Cemetery that has become filled with wood debris... |
| Date: | 05 17 1935 |
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| Description: | View of abandoned homes and other structures. |
| Date: | 05 17 1935 |
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| Description: | View of an abandoned home and barn behind a post fence. |
| Date: | 08 14 1935 |
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| Description: | View of an abandoned barn in a field with long grass. The roof is caved in. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of the dilapidated farm from which the Brundage family moved with the assistance of The United States Resettlement Administration. |
| 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: | Elevated view of yard with a wood pile for fuel. In the background are roads, porches, and other dwellings. Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buil... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A family poses in front of their home. "This family has to stop using the back room to this house. What used to be a doorway is now part of a huge hole in ... |
| 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: | "Damage done by Hurrican [sic] Betsy remains untouched eight months later. Note that tin covering has been torn off far edge of roof. Rain leaks through ot... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | One of the 15 outdoor toilets in the Beekman Quarters neighborhood of Natchez, Mississippi. "'It's been full for two months. We still have to use it or wal... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Several houses along a dirt road. A person stands in the doorway of one house. "'Some roofs leak worse than others, but we all get wet inside when it rains... |
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