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Kids Drinking Milk in School

Date: 1921
Description: Classroom full of school children drinking milk at Washington school.
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Bernice Robinson

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Description: Bernice Robinson with students at first citizenship school at Johns Island.
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Gesell Family Burlesque

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Description: The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi...
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Farm Family in Living Room

Date: 1900
Description: A farm family posing in their living room. Sitting from left to right is John Dietrich (1874-1947), Grace Bowman (1879-1964), and Mrs. Lizzie Macke Dietric...
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Country Dale School Classroom

Date: 11 25 1966
Description: In a view from beneath a television stand, seventh grade students are listening to a lecture in their classroom at Country Dale school.
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Out of Action

Date: 01 13 1967
Description: Dejected skier at home with cast and crutches, after breaking her leg practicing for competition.
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Classroom Cave People

Date: 02 27 1984
Description: A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times.
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Future Drafters

Date: 10 16 1965
Description: High school boys in an industrial drafting class using drafting machines and compasses.
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Bicycle Repair

Date: 05 23 1957
Description: Three young men repair a bicycle.
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Young Girl on Telephone

Date: 1950
Description: A teenager sitting on a bed talking on the telephone.
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George Henry Williams

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a portrait of George Henry Williams (deceased child at 18 months), son of Henry C. and Diana T. Williams, and may be the cousi...
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Classroom Lessons

Date: 04 27 1956
Description: One girl is writing on the blackboard while students are sitting at their desks paying various degrees of attention at Leland School.
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Jigsaw Puzzle

Date: 04 17 1957
Description: An elderly woman, Josephine Fell, is the "adopted grandmother" to a Girl Scout that visits her and works with her on a puzzle at Rosemary's Nursing Home in...
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Two Girls Comparing Charm Bracelets

Date: 03 15 1946
Description: Two views of two girls comparing charm bracelets.
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Students Taking ASTP Exam

Date: 03 15 1944
Description: Senior male students taking ASTP examination in West High School Cafeteria, Ash and Regent Streets. ASTP was the Army Specialized Training Program to train...
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Birthday Party Group

Date: 02 26 1944
Description: Group portrait of 14 young men taken in a living room at a birthday party (for Connie J. Lewis ?), with a dog, and four of the young men holding puppies. P...
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Boy Scouts, Troop #32, Banquet

Date: 02 14 1943
Description: Boy Scouts, Troop #32 from Latter Day Saints Church, banquet with Senior Patrol scouts sitting at tables, and more scouts and adult leaders standing in the...
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Father Flad's First Mass

Date: 05 20 1942
Description: Father Paul N. Flad faces the congregation during his first Mass at Blessed Sacrament Church, 2119 Rowley Avenue, with priests and altar boys kneeling in p...
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Three Children and Piano in Trailer

Date: 07 08 1936
Description: Interior view of Forbes Meagher trailer, with older child playing piano and two younger children watching.
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Longfellow School Health Checks in Nutrition Room

Date: 02 14 1935
Description: Longfellow student being weighed and measured. There are twelve students lying on cots. 210 S. Brooks Street.

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