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| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
| Date: | 02 25 1915 |
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| Description: | Five impoverished and disheveled-looking African American children sitting on the ground near their home. Original caption reads: "These five little Negro ... |
| Date: | 02 13 1915 |
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| Description: | African-American man and woman on the front porch of a rural home. The unidentified woman is retrieving water from a well, and the man, J.R. Dean, is sitti... |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ... |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
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| Description: | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster of an African American man in a straw hat and overalls seated in front of a weathered building. Text in th... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Charles Hayes (fourth from the right), an officer of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with the UPWA delegation to the march. |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| Description: | Marjory Collins, a writer and photographer for the "National Guardian," took this picture of the housing of poor blacks. |
| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and young boy sweep yard with "brush broom" while another woman with two children looks on. Two additional women, possibly Agricultural Extension e... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A family poses for photographers documenting living conditions. Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. None of the houses in the neighborhood... |
| 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: | 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: | "Two rooms. Six people, ages 33, 12, 8, 5, 2, 1. Wood heat. $12.00 per month. Carry water from neighbors front yard." Beekman Quarters housed 81 people i... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "Forty-two year old man indicates condition of these buildings." Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. None of the houses in the neighborhoo... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A woman and a child sit on the front porch of a house. This building houses 8 people in two rooms. Beekman Quarters housed 81 people in 23 buildings. Non... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "B. Shelly indicates hydrants which is sole supply of water to two households, nine persons ages 84, 76, 63, 41, 26, 12, 11, 5, 3. Boards are necessary to ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Porches line a walkway. Two children and a man sitting on a bench are in the foreground, while a dog and a child are visible in the background. “Row upon... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Children gather in the foreground, while houses and yards are visible in the background. A woman walks along the dirt path towards the camera. “Row upon... |
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