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Irish Milk Boy

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Description: A young boy drives a donkey-powered cart with a large milk can as cargo in Fermoy, Ireland.
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Circus Clown Sitting on Donkey

Date: 1909
Description: A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent.
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Donkey and Rider With Campaign Signs

Date: 1968
Description: An unidentified man wearing a sandwich board supporting Bronson La Follette for Governor and Gaylord Nelson for United States Senator is seated on a donkey...
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Donkey Train in Glacier National Park

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Description: Elevated view of a donkey train going up a zig-zag trail along the mountainside in Glacier National Park.
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Man and Donkey

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Description: A view of a man and a donkey standing in the street. Young children are standing in the background.
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Pack Animals Loaded for the Mountains

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Description: Donkeys loaded for packing in the Rocky Mountain area. Caption at top reads: "When shall we three meet again?" Caption at bottom reads: "Pack Animals Loade...
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Pack Train Leaving

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a pack train leaving town. Caption reads: "Pack Train Leaving Kooskia Ida."
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A Donkey Cart

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Description: View of a man in a hat, sitting on a donkey drawn cart filled with fire wood. The cart sits on a dirt road with woods in the background. Caption reads: "...
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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: Agricultural workers loading sugar cane onto a cart pulled by two donkeys. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane, Morgan City, LA."
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Vegetable Dealer with Cart

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Description: An elderly African American vegetable dealer in a donkey-driven cart parked in front of a row of windows.
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Grand Victorious 'Return' March of the Rebels

Date: 1860
Description: Four Union soldiers chasing four Confederate soldiers. The Union soldiers have a Union flag, a cannon and rifles with bayonets. The four Confederate soldie...
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Southern Ass-Stock-Crazy. (Southern Aristocracy.)

Date: 1860
Description: A donkey (ass) labeled "SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY," with a Confederate flag tied to his tail, is pulling against the post to which it is tied. The post is label...
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Switzer Foundation for Girls

Date: 1920
Description: A painting, possibly a portrait of the two founders of the Switzer Foundation for Girls, Margaret and Sarah Switzer. A woman on the left is holding a scrol...
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Mexican Wood Wagons

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Description: A man wearing a hat is standing in a side street in Juarez, Mexico next to two donkeys laden with bundles of wood. Caption reads: "Mexican Wood Wagons, Jua...
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Street Scene with Donkeys

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Description: A man in stands behind five donkeys, each laden with chopped wood in the middle of a dirt road. Caption reads: "Street Scene, Las Vegas, New Mexico."
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Valentine Greetings

Date: 1925
Description: Valentine's Day card featuring a boy riding a bucking donkey. His cap is flying off of his head. A heart is lying on the ground with the text: "Valentine G...
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"In the Land of the Sky"

Date: 1900
Description: Composite view of a man sitting in front of a cabin, a boy riding a donkey, and a man driving an ox-drawn sledge.
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Violet Lee Dousman and Fellow Travelers and Guides

Date: 1896
Description: A group portrait of Violet Lee Dousman (back row, 3rd from left) and her fellow travelers, guides and Egyptians on a trip to Giza, Egypt. Five people are r...
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Let's Get Together!

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Description: Card featuring a series of drawings of two donkeys tied together with a rope. This prevents each of them from eating from their own pile of hay until they ...
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Railroad Employees Posed on Donkeys

Date: 1906
Description: Employees of the Milwaukee Road at Happy Hollow. Left to right: engineers Fred Brown, John J. Rigney, William Wall, William H. Fetherston, and conductors J...

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