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Carriage in Alley

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Description: A man steers a horse-drawn carriage down an alley as two others look on from a doorway. The photograph was taken in Saint George, Bermuda.
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Mormon Cabin

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Description: Ruins of a Mormon cabin built of squared logs. A harbor is visible in the background.
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Bombing in North Vietnam

Date: 1967
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...
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West Point Plantation

Date: 1910
Description: View of the slave quarters at West Point Plantation. Copyright 1910 by Fleming & Bryant, Brunswick, GA.
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Jewish Ghetto in Poland

Date: 10 1940
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...
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Farm Buildings Near Rochelle

Date: 04 28 1925
Description: View across a rural road of farm buildings in a state of disrepair.
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Ramshackle Farm Buildings

Date: 04 06 1926
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, "...
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Deteriorated Farm Building

Date: 1915
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...
Postcard

The Ruins

Date: 1912
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 ...
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G.A.R. Memorial Hall

Date: 04 08 1957
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...
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Deteriorated Wooden Buildings

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Description: Wooden buildings in ruin. Overgrown bushes and piles of dirt are in the foreground.
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Damaged Brick Building

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Description: View up hill towards a large brick building with a large hole blasted in the second-floor. A wood platform below is collapsed.
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 07 15 1957
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...
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Typical Home Abandoned in Site I

Date: 05 17 1935
Description: View of abandoned homes and other structures.
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Typical Home Abandoned in Site I

Date: 05 17 1935
Description: View of an abandoned home and barn behind a post fence.
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Abandoned Barn in Site I

Date: 08 14 1935
Description: View of an abandoned barn in a field with long grass. The roof is caved in.
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Old Brundage Farm in Site I

Date: 1935
Description: View of the dilapidated farm from which the Brundage family moved with the assistance of The United States Resettlement Administration.
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Woman and Child on Porch, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
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 ...
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Wood Pile, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
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...

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Family, Beekman Quarters

Date: 1966
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 ...

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