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Basket Making at Neighborhood House

Date: 1950
Description: Group of girls making baskets, as an older girl or woman demonstrates a technique. Neighborhood House sponsored many groups and activities, such as basketr...
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Carson Gulley with Pies

Date: 05 14 1953
Description: Chef Carson Gulley holding two pies and standing in front of a rack of fudge bottom pies. He is posing for a WMTV ad for his cooking show to be broadcast ...
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Beatrice Braton straightening the dress she made for a doll at a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The dolls will be sent to an orphanage overseas in J...
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 21 1954
Description: Margaret Rogers and Patricia Ann Johnson are chatting while working on doll dresses during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House.
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Bonita Gill, Marcia Gulrud, Jeanette Braxton, and Ann Gulrud admiring the dolls they made dresses for during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The do...
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Maria Johnson and Patty Poppa are looking on as Donna Harris is adjusting a sewing machine at Blessed Martin House. The girls in the sewing class made dres...
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New Pines Restaurant

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Two African American cooks standing by a stone hearth in the kitchen at the New Pines restaurant located at 2413 Parmenter Street. One of the cooks might ...
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Activities at the Neighborhood House

Date: 03 11 1958
Description: A favorite activity for the 11- and 12-year-old-girls group at the Neighborhood House at 768 West Washington Avenue is basket weaving. Mrs. Wendall V. Har...

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