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Old Abe and the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 07 1863
Description: "Old Abe" and "Color Guard" of the Eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, posed in uniform, outside with Old Abe on a shield perch. Likely Edward H...
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Outdoor Country Feast

Date: 1915
Description: View down long table set up outdoors for a feast. Men are standing on both sides, and a young girl is standing between two men on the right.
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African American School Band

Date: 1914
Description: African-American school band assembled in a lecture hall at the Piney Woods Country Life School with Agricultural Extension Department workers and charts i...
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Delta Implement Company Employees

Date: 1929
Description: Employees of the Delta Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership, lined up outdoors for a group portrait.
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Canning Club Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1914
Description: Lula Tunisson using an El Flo hot water canner to give a presentation to the men, women, and children of a canning club.
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Vicksburg Surrender Monument

Date: 04 1902
Description: Confederate veterans at the Vicksburg Surrender Monument, on the occasion of decorating Union soldiers' graves.
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Old Abe and His Regiment Color Guard

Date: 07 1863
Description: Photograph of a monochrome painting of "Old Abe" the bald eagle mascot of the Eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and his regiment color guard. ...
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Group with Jersey Cows

Date: 1918
Description: Two men and a woman standing on the lawn of a home while holding four Jersey cows.
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Civil Rights Volunteers in Mississippi

Date: 1964
Description: In the summer of 1964, Freedom Summer volunteers pose in front of a campaign poster for Victoria Jackson Gray, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candida...
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Freedom School Students

Date: 1964
Description: A group of African-American children pose outdoors on and in front of a pickup truck during Freedom Summer. Likely at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Bap...
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Ned Gillam with Two Ministers

Date: 07 1965
Description: Group portrait of three ministers taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Ned Gillam, Disciple of Christ minister, Fairfield, Iowa, was denied admittance to...
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Woman and Two Children

Date: 07 1965
Description: A woman and two children pose for a photograph taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Mrs. Willie Thompson, my warmly gracious hostess for over two weeks. U...
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Ernestine Bishop with Children

Date: 07 1965
Description: A woman and two children, photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"Mrs. Ernestine Bishop, another most courageous freedom worker. Last summer she walk...

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Freedom School Students Drinking Coca Cola

Date: 07 1965
Description: Freedom School students photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"A free Coke for all - offered by the new superintendent of schools - helped to create ...

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Children on Porch, Phelan's Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: Children stand on the front steps and porch of a home. Many of the children are holding balloons. Laundry hangs from a clothesline on the porch.

“Row upo...

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Holly Springs Freedom School Volunteers

Date: 1964
Description: A large group of volunteers pose on the steps in front of the Holly Springs Freedom School.
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Campaign at Oxford

Date: 11 15 1915
Description: Group portrait of men and women, speakers of the Campaign, posing outdoors, ready for the start for various parts of the county. Behind the group are autom...

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