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Silverstone, My Tailor

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Description: A boy on a Milwaukee street is driving a goat cart with an advertisement for Silverstone the tailor. Several on-lookers are watching from the left hand sid...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Just Plums

Date: 1911
Description: Two boys haul four giant plums using a small wagon pulled by two white goats. One boy is holding the reins. The boys are wearing jackets and caps. The back...
Postcard

The Return From the Alps

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Description: Color postcard of a Swiss farmer returning home with his animals. Many of the animals, and five of the shepherds, are labeled with a name. The path loops b...
Photograph

Main Street

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Description: A posed group of townspeople stand outside storefronts on Main Street.
Painting

Expedition with Supply Cart

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Description: An illustration created using cutout photographs and white, gray and black paint on cream colored paper. The scene depicts, in profile, a man pulling a loa...
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"Porgy and Bess" Production Still

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Description: Production still from the film "Porgy and Bess." Porgy (Sidney Poitier) kneels on his cart which is pulled by a goat. He passes a group of men playing dice...
Photograph

Serbian Refugees

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Description: Serbian refugees walking through the streets, with livestock and wagons.
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Serbian Refugees

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Description: Serbian refugees walking through muddy streets with their livestock.
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Skutari Street Scenes

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Description: "In the footsteps of the Orient," in Skutari.
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Street Scene in Skutari

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Description: In the Muslim quarter of Skutari, Albania.

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