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Clinton Youth at Highlander Folk School

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Description: Four girls hiking up a mountain as an excursion during the Clinton Youth session at Highlander Folk School. Clinton Youth was a Unitarian work camp from th...
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Highlander Folk School Youth Project Dance

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Description: Youth dancing at the Highlander Folk School as part of the Summer Youth Project program. Wendy Davis is in the lower left.
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Koinonia Children's Campers in Lake

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Description: Children swimming in a lake as part of Highlander Folk School's Koinonia Children's Camp.
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Unitarian Work Campers Cleaning School Grounds

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Description: Two work campers at the Highlander Folk School cleaning the school grounds. The boy in front is using a scythe to clear brush.
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Estelle Thompson at CIO School

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Description: Highlander Folk School instructor Estelle Thompson showing leaflet-making and stencil cutting at CIO school.
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Farmers Union Workshop Members

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Description: Members of a Farmers Union workshop at Highlander Folk School are seen relaxing in the men's dormitories on bunk beds.
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Packinghouse Educational Conference

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Description: Packinghouse Educational Conference at Highlander Folk School. Banner reads, "Denver locals No's 21, 85, 87 & 88 welcomes delegates, Eighth Constitutional...
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Smelter Workers

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Description: Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them.
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Smelter Workers

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Description: A group of smelter workers, with their hands raised as if responding to a question, at a Highlander Folk School workshop.
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George Guernsey at CIO Workshop

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Description: George Guernsey, with crutches, teaching CIO students at a Highlander Folk School workshop. Chalkboard makes reference to Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman.
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Young Citizenship Group Sewing

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Description: Johns Island students discuss sewing and the first young citizenship group at Highlander Folk School.
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National Education Staff Outdoor Discussion

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Description: CIO School group discussion in front yard of Highlander. Mr. Brock, a member of the National Educational Staff, leads a discussion.
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Food, Tobacco, Agriculture Workers Cookout

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Description: Food, Tobacco, Agriculture Workers cookout. Second from left, Marny, the Pre-Education director.
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Farmers Union Picnic

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Description: Women wearing patterned dresses at a Farmers Union Picnic at Highlander Folk School.
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Student Making Stencil at Highlander

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Description: Food, Tobacco and Agriculture student at Highlander Folk School creating a stencil to be used to make signs.
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Zilphia Horton Operating Film Projector

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Description: Zilphia Horton(?) learning to operate a film projector at Highlander Folk School. Three people observe behind her.
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Movie Shown at Highlander

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Description: A movie being shown at Highlander Folk School. Still frame reads, "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half," a Jay Gould quote. G...
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Early CIO Session at Highlander

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Description: Zilphia Horton leading songs at Highlander during an early union CIO session. Charlie Wilson, board member, extreme right, next to him is his wife Frankie....
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Highlander Film Center

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Description: Filming a scene for the Highlander Film Center. Fred Lasse standing right of camera.
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Bunk House Philosophers

Date: 10 1948
Description: Three men talking around a bunk bed.

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