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Pythian Orphans' Home

Date: 1911
Description: A view of young girls playing with dolls in the nursery of Pythian Orphans' Home. Caption reads: "Nursery Room."
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Local-Option Election

Date: 02 1908
Description: A view of the crowds at an election. The crowd, mostly women, stand in front of the post office. A sign says "God Made the Water." Printed below the image:...
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Church of the Holy Spirit

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Description: View toward the front and right side of the church, with a woman and child standing on the steps in front of the door. The building is mostly stucco, but h...
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Y.M.C.A.

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Description: A group of people poses for a portrait in front of a Y.M.C.A. building. A man dressed as a Native American chief stands at the center of the image and a w...
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State Normal School Gymnasium

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Description: Composite image including children performing exercises inside a gymnasium and an inset drawing of the exterior of the State Normal School. Text at bottom...
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Narrow Town Street Scene

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Description: Pedestrians pass parked cars along a narrow dirt road lined with shops.
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Town View and Castle Rock

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Description: View featuring stores and dwellings built into hillsides. Castle Rock appears on the right side of a road. Opposite the landform, the Castle Rock Lodging...
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North Vietnam School

Date: 1967
Description: Kindergarten classroom in the North Vietnamese village of Phu Xa, showing the ditch in the center of the room that ran to the air raid shelter. Two men sta...
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St. Helen's Home

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Description: View of St. Helen's Home and other colonial homes in a residential setting.
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Narrow Residential Lane

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Description: View of four men and a boy walking down a narrow lane lined with homes and a picket fence.
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Public School Number Six

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Description: Children stand on the sidewalk outside Public School Number Six, a tall brick building on a city block.
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Central Ward School

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Description: Exterior of Central Ward School, a brick building featuring a central colonnaded tower. Children can be seen near the playground outside the school.
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City Hall

Date: 1913
Description: View from across street of the Village Hall/Fire Station. There are hitching posts along the curb. On the right a young boy stands on the sidewalk near a f...
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Studio Portrait of European American Children

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of three unidentified European American girls posing standing outdoors on a wooden sidewalk in front of a wooden building and door. ...
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Old Man Whittling

Date: 1940
Description: Interior portrait of an elderly man sitting in a rocking chair whittling. A small boy is standing behind him on the right. Potted plants are on the window ...
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America's First Kindergarten

Date: 1968
Description: View across lawn towards a man holding open a door for a group of children. They are entering a small white building, the site of America's first kindergar...
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Howard and Louise Greene

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Description: Howard and Louise Greene posing with their young children in front of the entrance of their house at 1831 North Cambridge Avenue.
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Gisholt Sales Force

Date: 12 1906
Description: The caption on the back of this photograph reads: "Eight of the Sales force of the Gisholt Machine Company. (Refused!)" It was made by "J.H.N." A line of e...
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Lewinski Family

Date: 11 13 1965
Description: A family with a man, a woman, and three children, are posing in front of a house. Caption reads: "Born on Friday the 13th 30 years ago, Mrs. James [Delores...
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Kubicki Family

Date: 09 05 1977
Description: A man, a woman, and two children are sitting together on the front walk steps in front of a house. Caption reads: "Dennis Kubicki, his wife, Sandy, and the...

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