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: | 1915 |
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Description: | A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the ... |
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Description: | People assembled at storefront along the street of a small town in "poor farming country." |
Date: | 07 1923 |
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Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
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... |
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Description: | Dirty and disheveled boy with no shoes standing in the street with a baby carriage. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
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: | 09 02 1930 |
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Description: | Dilapidated backyard at Milwaukee amd N. Bryan Street next to Madison Builders Supply. |
Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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Description: | A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Squalid, littered alley. Tire tracks run through the mud between wooden buildings. |
Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
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Description: | A Black Family (Ingram children) in Georgia in the 1930s or 1940s. |
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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: | 1936 |
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Description: | Florence Thompson with several of her children in a tent shelter as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. |
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. |
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Description: | Snapshot taken by Sigurd Olson of refugees scavenging in military trash bins. Although the location is not identified, it is probably in or near Berlin. |
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