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"Tramp Chair"

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Description: A view of a chair on wheels with a hotel in the background. A sign on the lawn reads: "Keep away from the Cannon." Printed near the bottom left corner: "Th...
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The Samoset

Date: 1910
Description: A group of adults, mostly women, walk along the Rockland Breakwater. The Samoset Resort is in the background on the shoreline. Caption reads: "The Samoset ...
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The Samoset Resort Oudoor Putting Contest

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Description: Spectators stand beneath the shade of trees and umbrellas while watching competitors in the Samoset Resort outdoor putting contest.
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Scene at Rockland

Date: 1922
Description: View across road of the Berg & Jones Department Store, with posters in the front windows announcing an upcoming Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus ...
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Rockland Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View down unpaved street towards a general store on the left. The sign on the awning in front reads: "Homstad Store." A gas pump, parked car and large tree...
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Old Welsh Church

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Description: View across graveyard of the Old Welsh Church. The Jenkins family tombstones are in the foreground. Separating the cemetery from the church is a wooden fen...
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Prospect Avenue

Date: 1924
Description: View down Prospect Avenue, with men sitting on a bench by the "Steponet" gas pumps in front of a storefront. A man stands on the sidewalk in front of the b...
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Union Depot

Date: 1924
Description: View down tracks towards man standing in front of the Union Depot. There is a "Seeds Feed" sign on a building in the background. In the foreground is a lam...
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Western Union Crew

Date: 05 01 1912
Description: A group of 16 men, some in suits, some in work clothes, posing with railroad cars from the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.

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