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Children Sledding

Date: 1975
Description: A winter scene with excited children on a toboggan.
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Men on Street near Puddle

Date: 1905
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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Flood Victims

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Description: A group of flood victims stand in the rain after (Hurricane) Betsy at Algers Naval Base, where conditions were inadequate for them.
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Auburndale Camp

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Description: Elevated view of logging crew posed outside a log cabin in winter. Several horses are at the back of the group. The foreman, Mike Baltus, is possibly at fr...
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Lewis Arms with Crashed Rental Car

Date: 04 1946
Description: Lewis Arms stands next to a damaged 1946 Chevrolet which had been rented from Friede Rent-A-Car. Arms and Bert Rogers had been traveling to Milwaukee in th...
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Taylor in Front of the Tuxedo Club

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Description: A man identified only as Taylor stands in the snow by his parked automobile in front of the Tuxedo Club on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue. He is w...
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Eddie Arms with Farm Animals

Date: 1945
Description: Eddie Arms stands near a barn with his arm around a cow. There are turkeys in the foreground of this winter scene.
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Lewis Arms in a DeSoto Automobile

Date: 1951
Description: Lewis Arms is sitting in the driver's seat of a 1941(?) DeSoto automobile owned by Joe Brown, as his friend Booker T (standing) looks on. They are at James...
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Uncle Walter Arms and Elinora

Date: 1951
Description: Elinora (mother of Lewis Arms, Jr.) stands in the snow and shoots a rifle, while Walter Arms, uncle of Lewis Arms, looks on.
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Chester Elvord

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Description: Chester Elvord, cousin of Louis (Lew) Arms, poses outdoors on Lake Street wearing his military uniform.
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1978
Description: Holiday card showing four African Americans, two men and two women, sliding down a hill on a sled. More snow-covered hills are visible in the background. T...
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Black Christmas

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Description: Holiday card of an African American child standing next to a snowman. The child is wearing a jacket, snow pants, boots, stocking cap and earmuffs. The snow...
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Lewis Arms and John Berry

Date: 1952
Description: Lewis Arms leans against a car with his arm around his family friend and neighbor John Berry, who he called "Pa Berry".
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Lewis Arms and Cousin in Military Uniforms

Date: 1952
Description: Lewis Arms (kneeling), who is wearing his Marine Corps uniform, poses with his first cousin Chester Elvord, who is wearing his Army uniform. They are on La...
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Lewis Arms and Nedra

Date: 1952
Description: Lewis Arms, who is wearing his Marine Corps uniform, poses outdoors with his sister Nedra.
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Lewis Arms on a Sled

Date: 1957
Description: Winter scene with Lewis Arms sitting on a sled in the snow at his uncle Otis Arms's farm, Hillsboro (Vernon Co.), Wisconsin.
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Webb Family Album: The Tumbledown Shack

Date: 1920
Description: A page from the Webb family album, compiled and captioned by Andrew Webb Jr., son of Caroline Webb, with two images of friends, an image of the corner groc...
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Webb TB Album: Horses Were Useful

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Description: A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of ot...
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Webb TB Album: Andy, Again

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Description: A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of An...
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Postal Carrier and Route Truck

Date: 1970
Description: An African-American postal carrier is standing on the sidewalk with mail in a rolling cart. He is wearing a winter postal employee uniform and a hat. Behin...

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