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| Date: | 09 15 1928 |
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| Description: | Street scene featuring the Old Absinthe House, a famous New Orleans establishment in the city's French Quarter. The building was built in 1806 by Pedro Fro... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View from street of workers, including some African Americans, loading (and/or unloading) agricultural equipment and parts outside a general office of the ... |
| Date: | 10 01 1912 |
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| Description: | African American wagon driver standing with a horse-drawn wagon parked on a city street. The man is likely an employee of International Harvester, possibly... |
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| Description: | Farmer hauling corn to market with an ox-driven wagon. Original caption notes that oxen were used considerably in the south for motive power. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from across street of men posing with farm and lawn equipment along the storefront of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership. Thre... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Man standing in the bed of an International coal delivery truck owned by Thos. J. Kearney Jr., Inc. The man is shoveling coal and the truck is backed up to... |
| Date: | 05 25 1931 |
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| Description: | Wan Wan San Chinese acrobats and Harris and Van, from the Orpheum Theatre, wearing straw hats, in front of Crescent Clothing Store, 27 N. Pinckney Street. ... |
| Date: | 07 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Side view of an African American man sitting behind the wheel of an International bus. The words "caro-lindom" appear on the side of the bus. In the backgr... |
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| Description: | A man poses while selling chickens on the street. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View across street towards Harry Rodin's service station at the intersection of North 7th and West Galena. People are standing at the corner near the bus s... |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | The east side of the Schlitz Palm Garden at N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue. The Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and was one of the ... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Tom Hayden, in the center wearing the dark shirt, looking at a police officer talking to four African-American men. Newark ERAP project. From the SDS colle... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men standing around a puddle alongside a road near a small snowbank. One man is bending down near the puddle with a hammer in his hand. Signs for beer are ... |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee police approach a line of NAACP Youth Council members in an attempt to break up a demonstration. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of men and a boy pose near the rapid transit car labeled, "Aileen" and "Hotel." Caption reads: "Rapid Transit Car, Washington, GA." |
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| Description: | An elderly African American vegetable dealer in a donkey-driven cart parked in front of a row of windows. |
| Date: | 04 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses with his sister and other children on Easter Day. Front from left to right are Nedra Arms (sister) and John Hall. From left to right behin... |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms hugs Helen Berry playfully. He is wearing his Navy uniform. |
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