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Peeling Carrots
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A boy in a Boy Scouts uniform for Milwaukee County Council 406 is sitting on a camp stool and peeling carrots. Caption reads: "Peeling carrots was unexciting business for Hebert Renfro, 16, of 2629 N. 7th Lane, with so many other interesting things going on near him."
May 26, 1958
Nusbaum, Donald W.
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