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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy, with proprietor, assistant, customer and mailman standing among numerous retail displays and a McCormick-Deering "four in lin... |
| Date: | 05 15 1941 |
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| Description: | Three African American field artillery soldiers crossing a creek on a TD-18 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and 155 mm gun. The soldiers were from Bat... |
| Date: | 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Herbert March speaking at the "Negro and White, Unite and Fight" rally in -8 F degree weather. |
| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | African American man sitting inside an agricultural display of corn, potatoes, canned goods and International Harvester agricultural lecture charts. A bann... |
| Date: | 02 21 1985 |
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| Description: | The Auer Avenue School's safety cadet team standing in front of the school building. |
| Date: | 11 14 1966 |
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| Description: | African American junior Girl Scouts pouring fruit juice into a punch bowl as they prepare to entertain their parents. |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
| Date: | 09 22 1967 |
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| Description: | A boy is twirling a "hula-hoop" around his neck while another child is watching from the left foreground. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Eighteen man crew for the Union Pacific Silo Special Trip posing for a group portrait in front of railroad cars. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | African American workman filling an International Model "63" coal and ice truck. The truck was owned by George Jaekel & Son Coal and Ice Company based in ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1924 |
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| Description: | Crew of African American workmen paving a city street behind an International heavy-duty truck. |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of an African American Civil War soldier from Hughes and Meltzer, "A pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
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| Description: | Two Black Civil War soldiers from Hughes and Metzer "Pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
| Date: | 04 24 1989 |
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| Description: | Children meet "Happy Tooth", a robot sponsored by Colgate toothpaste on a 30-state tour to promote dental hygiene to young school children. |
| Date: | 03 19 1989 |
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| Description: | Children celebrating their heritage during Ethnic Pride Day at Our Savior's Lutheran Church Hall, 3022 West Wisconsin Avenue. The celebration, which highl... |
| Date: | 06 20 1935 |
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| Description: | Two African American workers use McCormick-Deering I-12 industrial tractors with attached wagons to haul cargo at a Jacksonville rail station. The men wor... |
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