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Farmers Union Workshop Member

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Description: A Farmers Union member from Astatde, Tennessee, attending a workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Young Woman Looking Up

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Description: A young woman wearing a cross pendant looking up from a stack of paper.
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Karen Blondell, Antioch Co-op

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Description: Karen Blondell of the Antioch co-op at Highlander Folk School.
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Woman in Kimono at Highlander

Date: 09 1959
Description: A woman wearing a kimono at Highlander Folk School.
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Man Operating Mechanical Arms

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Description: An African American man operating a series of large, mechanical arms to manipulate various bottles and scientific instruments. At the Oak Ridge Atomic Muse...
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Reverend DeJarnette at Highlander

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Description: Portrait of Reverend DeJarnette sitting in a wooden chair at Highlander Folk School.
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Food, Tobacco, and Agricultural Workshop Participant

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Description: A member of the Food, Tobacco and Agriculture workshop at Highlander Folk School posing near a tree with a fedora and cigar in his hand.
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Elderly Woman in Highlander Library

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Description: An elderly woman in a straw sun hat reading a book in the Highlander Folk School Library.
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Workshop Participant at Highlander

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Description: An unidentified African American man, participating in a workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Female Civil Rights Workshop Participant

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Description: A female Civil Rights workshop participant standing outside at Highlander Folk School.
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Portrait of a Woman at Highlander

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Description: A portrait of an unidentified woman at Highlander Folk School.
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Picnic Behind Highlander

Date: 1935
Description: A student at Highlander having a picnic behind the school.
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Learn Ideas at Highlander

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Description: Images of men with the words "Workers," "Farmers," and "Learn New Ideas at Highlander," collaged around them. Part of a series of Highlander photographic c...
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers Chart

Date: 1965
Description: Jim Dombrowski, Secretary of Highlander Folk School, lecturing using an Amalgamated Clothing Workers Visual-Lecture Sheet.
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Man Reading Newspaper

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Description: A man, presumably a farmer, reading "The Tennessee Union Farmer" newspaper.
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Students Next to Highlander Entrance

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Description: A group of early Highlander Folk School students standing near the entrance sign.
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Dynamiting Spillway to Highlander Lake

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Description: Detonated dynamite effecting the spillway to Highlander Lake.
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Music at Farmers Union Meeting

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Description: Three boys, one playing a guitar, one playing a mandolin, and one singing a song from "Favorite Radio Gems," songbook, as part of a Farmers Union Meeting a...
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Pete Seeger at Highlander

Date: 1957
Description: Pete Seeger at Highlander Folk School, possibly at a 25th anniversary celebration, where he was in charge of music. Playing an Orpheum #1 open-back five st...
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Zilphia Horton Leading Songs

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Description: Zilphia Horton leading singing at CIO School during Holiday season. At the table on the right, Myles Horton, Mike Ross, Tom Ludwig, and Joyce Mitchell.

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