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1.
The governor's palace kitchen, Williamsburg, Virginia : two African American women cooks

Creator:

Overly, Charles H.

Date:

June 23, 1965

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Cotton Pickers in Dixieland : a group of African American men, African American women and African American children picking cotton with scattered trees in the background [hand colored]

Creator:

Tichnor Bros., Inc. (Boston, Mass.)

Date:

July 10, 1958

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African American woman sitting on a chair reading a book to her two girls, with an African American man sitting in another chair, in front of a fireplace

Creator:

Lambert.

Date:

December 12, 1957

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Flower vendor, Charleston, S.C., America's Most Historic City

Creator:

Curt Teich & Co.

Date:

February 12, 1957

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Picking cotton in the sunny South : African American women and an African American man picking cotton in a field with houses in the background [hand colored]

Creator:

Asheville Post Card Co. (Asheville, N.C.)

Date:

October 19, 1957

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Supervised food preparation, class 1957, at Home Eckers Trade School in Raleigh, N.C.

Creator:

Artvue Post Card Co. (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1957

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Greetings from the heart of Dixie : a typical cotton picking scene [hand colored]

Creator:

Welch Sales Co. (Toomsuba, Miss.)

Date:

August 1953

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M & M Cafeteria suggestion card

Date:

March 25, 1951

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Shrimp docks-Southport, N.C. : with African American men and women working

Date:

September 5, 1950

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Picking cotton : two African American women in a field picking cotton with trees in the background

Creator:

Graycraft Card Co. (Danville, Va.)

Date:

August 9, 1945

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The Old North State : cotton pickers in a cotton field [hand colored]

Creator:

Asheville Post Card Co. (Asheville, N.C.)

Date:

August 24, 1938

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12.
Portrait of Mary Ann Prout

Date:

January 11, 1938

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13.
Sweet contentment : an African American woman standing in front of a cabin holding a ladle and an African American man sitting in a chair

Creator:

Union News Company (Boston, Mass.)

Date:

December 3, 1935

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The Oliver Street School for Colored Children, Winchester, Ky. : African American men, women and children posed outside the school [hand colored]

Creator:

E. C. Kropp Co.

Date:

September 7, 1932

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State Colored Normal School, Fayetteville, N.C.

Date:

July 11, 1924

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16.
Wash day in Dixie Land

Creator:

Curt Teich & Co.

Date:

January 1922

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17.
In the cotton field : an African American woman in a cotton field [hand colored]

Creator:

Valentine & Sons.

Date:

April 4, 1921

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18.
Four African American women in dresses standing in a field of flowers

Date:

January 9, 1919

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19.
A portrait of Mme. C.J. Walker

Date:

August 8, 1919

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20.
Down where the cotton blossoms grow : African American men, women and children in a field of cotton blossoms [hand colored]

Creator:

C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.)

Date:

February 26, 1917

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Still image

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21.
Early days in Kentucky : an African American man, boy and woman holding an infant, outside a log cabin

Creator:

Bagby-Howe Drug Co. (Louisville, Ky.)

Date:

October 13, 1917

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An old-time southern mommy

Creator:

F. Marchant.

Date:

September 26, 1917

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Whoa mule! : four African American children sitting on a mule in front of a log cabin and a woman looking out the window [hand colored]

Creator:

Detroit Publishing Co.

Date:

January 21, 1916

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24.
Williams Jubilee Singers, touring Europe [hand colored]

Date:

March 30, 1916

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Williams Jubilee Singers, touring Europe [hand colored]

Date:

April 5, 1916

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Negro characters, New Orleans : African American woman standing behind a basket, an African American woman sitting on a set of steps, an African American man standing with a walking stick, and three African Americans in front of a house

Creator:

Thayer, Frank S.

Date:

February 10, 1915

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27.
Old fashioned cabin, chimney built of sticks and mud, Florida : African American women and children outside a log cabin, with a big black pot [hand colored]

Creator:

Cochrane's Book Store (Palatka, Fla.)

Date:

1915

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28.
Way down south in Dixie Land : an African American woman and six children sitting on a grassy hill [hand colored]

Creator:

Leighton & Valentine Co. (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

February 2, 1915

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29.
Group of Atkinson College students

Date:

July 23, 1914

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30.
Negro home in Mobile, Ala. : an African American man and woman sitting on the porch of a house : with a cornfield [hand colored]

Creator:

Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

Date:

February 18, 1914

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31.
Southern negro cabin with animal carcases hanging on it : an African American man, woman and child sitting on the porch, with dogs

Creator:

C. T. Photochrom.

Date:

June 9, 1914

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32.
Southern travel : an African American man and woman riding in an ox-drawn cart, with another African American standing behind them

Date:

September 1914

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33.
A. & M. College for Colored People in Greensboro, N.C.

Creator:

S. H. Krebbs & Co.

Date:

October 10, 1913

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Among' the pioneers 60 years ago : scenes along the country roads : with an African American man, boy, and woman holding a baby

Creator:

Bishop, E. A.

Date:

October 11, 1913

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Gwine back to Dixie : an African American man, woman, and two boys, along with a donkey, walking with their backs to the camera [hand colored]

Date:

April 13, 1913

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36.
Romeo and Juliet in cotton field : an African American man and African American woman picking cotton together [hand colored]

Date:

April 25, 1913

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37.
Courting : an African American man and woman riding in an oxen-drawn cart, in front of a wooden building

Creator:

F.W. Woolworth Co.

Date:

September 6, 1912

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38.
Lincoln and the contrabands : Abraham Lincoln speaking to a group of slaves, with a soldier, and other women standing near him [hand colored]

Date:

February 12, 1912

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39.
My old Kentucky home : with an African American holding a gun and a woman sitting outside the cabin [hand colored]

Date:

May 1912

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40.
Two African American women on a horse in front of a colored church

Creator:

T.P. & Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

September 7, 1912

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Women vegetable venders, an every morning scene on the streets of Charleston, S.C.

Creator:

F. M. Kirby & Co.

Date:

August 8, 1912

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African American woman kneeling next to an irrigating ditch in San Antonio, Texas [hand colored]

Date:

April 2, 1911

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43.
Aunt Venus hunting for Florida fleas : an African American woman with a child's head in her lap

Creator:

Mark, M.

Date:

February 23, 1911

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44.
Between Orlando and Oakland, country scene near Orlando, Fla. : African American men, women and children standing outside a wood dwelling, with a horse [hand colored]

Date:

February 17, 1911

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45.
The happiest people on earth : an African American man and woman outside, with a cotton field behind them [hand colored]

Date:

January 1911

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46.
Near Penn School : an African American woman standing in a field near Penn School at St. Helena Island, S.C.

Date:

June 1911

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Two old residents of New Bern, N.C. : an African American man smoking a pipe, and an African American woman

Creator:

Waters, Geo. B.

Date:

February 1911

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Cotton pickers : a line of African American men and African American women in a cotton field, one man with a basket of cotton on his shoulder, one man with his hand on a basket of cotton on the ground and one woman also with her hand on a basket

Date:

March 6, 1910

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Cotton picking : African American men, African American women and African American children picking cotton along a path through a field with one of them carrying a basket and with filled bags on the ground [hand colored]

Creator:

Souvenir Post Card Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

October 25, 1910

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Still image

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In Dixie land : African American man holding a bag, an African American man driving a oxen driven cart, an African American man holding a cane, and two African American women holding baskets on their heads

Date:

July 21, 1910

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51.
Negro log cabin : with an African American man and woman standing outside, with a garden

Creator:

Tennessee River Souvenir & Post Card Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

Date:

1910

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Old time Negress : an African American woman spinning cotton [hand colored]

Creator:

A. C. Bosselman & Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

December 10, 1910

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53.
Silver Springs, Fla. : steamboat landing and railway station

Creator:

Hugh C. Leighton Co., Manufacturers (Portland, Me.)

Date:

October 1910

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Three African American women and three African American men picking cotton in a field

Date:

December 1910

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Way down on the Florida Keys : an African American woman in a skirt and blouse leaning on a wood fence

Date:

April 8, 1910

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56.
An African American man, woman and child picking cotton

Date:

May 7, 1909

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57.
An African American woman crouched on the ground, posing with eleven children [hand colored]

Date:

April 29, 1909

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58.
An African American woman, boy and men around a table with pumpkins on it, with a dog laying next to them [hand colored]

Creator:

Morrill Press (Fulton, N.Y.)

Date:

1909

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I'll wah you chiluns out : an African American women with a boy and girl outside a log cabin

Creator:

Allgood, Susie W.

Date:

1909 approx.

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60.
Opossum and taters for three : two African American men and one woman with a branch and two possums

Creator:

Allgood, Susie W.

Date:

1909 approx.

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Plantation life in Dixie Land : an African American family : with a man sitting on a ladder, a man playing a banjo, a woman standing in the doorway, three children and a dog in front of a log cabin [hand colored]

Creator:

Havens, O. P.

Date:

1909

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Still image

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62.
Southern horseless carriage

Creator:

Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

Date:

February 25, 1909

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Taint no Sin to Eat Possum : an African American family eating at a table in a log cabin

Creator:

Allgood, Susie W.

Date:

1909 approx.

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Way down south in Dixie : African American men women and children posing outside a house, with a turkey and chicken on the ground [hand colored]

Date:

November 5, 1909

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Common Street, Shreveport, La.

Creator:

Cahn, Sam.

Date:

June 30, 1908

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A corner in Cotton : an African American man and woman in a cotton field [hand colored]

Creator:

MacFarlane, W. G. (William Godsoe), 1870-1942.

Date:

January 2, 1908

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Cotton field : African Americans in a cotton field, with two dwellings [hand colored]

Creator:

Rosin & Co.

Date:

August 24, 1908

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Cotton picking in the sunny South : a group of African American men, African American women, African American boys, and African American girls picking cotton in a field with two baskets of cotton

Creator:

Tees, H.

Date:

1908

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My old Kentucky home : an African American woman standing ouside a wood house with chickens on the ground

Creator:

Wrenn & King (Lexington, Ky.)

Date:

March 20, 1908

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Open-handed hospitality : an African American woman standing bent over milking a cow with a couple of chickens nearby with two buildings in the background [hand colored]

Date:

January 1908

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A southern negro cabin : with an African American woman standing, and child, sitting in the doorway

Creator:

E. R. Schraudt.

Date:

July 9, 1908

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[Nigger] : an African American woman in a dress sitting in a chair, eating something out of a bottle

Creator:

Royster, J.

Date:

1907 approx.

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An African American woman in a dress holding a closed parasol

Date:

April 5, 1907

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74.
Come kiss yo' honey : portrait of an African American woman wearing a dress and a hat

Creator:

Eckstone, G.

Date:

1907 approx.

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Cotton picking time : African American men and women in a cotton field [hand colored]

Creator:

Jamestown A. & V. Co.

Date:

1907

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The Darkey at his daily work : an African American man, woman and child picking cotton

Creator:

MacGowan-Cooke Printing Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.)

Date:

October 9, 1907

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A little chocolate drop : an African American woman sitting on a porch holding a baby

Creator:

Souvenir Post Card Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

May 3, 1907

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The little log cabin in the lane : with two African American women, an African American man and two children standing outfront

Creator:

Leach, Dixie W.

Date:

1907 approx.

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Mammy : an African American woman sitting on a set of stairs in front of a building [hand colored]

Creator:

Royster, J.

Date:

1907 approx.

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Negro shack, Montgomery, Ala. : an African American man and woman standing outside a log cabin

Creator:

Fowler, E. G.

Date:

December 28, 1907

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An old African American woman holding a stick, with two dogs

Date:

April 6, 1907

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82.
An old Kentucky home : an African American man playing a banjo : an African American woman in an apron

Date:

August 26, 1907

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Southern negro cabin with animal carcases hanging on it : an African American man, woman and child sitting on the porch, with dogs [hand colored]

Creator:

C. T. American Art.

Date:

January 1907

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Typical negro home : an African American man and woman sitting on the porch of a log cabin

Date:

March 26, 1907

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Typical southern negro home : with African American women and children sitting and standing outside

Creator:

Hugh C. Leighton Co., Manufacturers (Portland, Me.)

Date:

November 1907

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African American men eating lunch in front of a small grass covered building, on a sugar plantation

Date:

August 1906

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Cotton pickers : a line of African American men and African American women in a cotton field, one man with a basket of cotton on his shoulder, one man with his hand on a basket of cotton on the ground and one woman also with her hand on a basket

Creator:

Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

Date:

March 9, 1906

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Down where the cotton blossoms grow : three African American women and an African American boy picking cotton and a man in a suit and hat

Creator:

Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

Date:

October 15, 1906

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Still image

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In the cotton field : six African American men, two African American women and three African American children picking cotton in a field with a man in a suit standing next to a wagon with an African American man in it

Creator:

Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

Date:

August 1906

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90.
Love in a hut : an older African American man and woman sitting on steps

Creator:

E. C. Kropp Co.

Date:

February 7, 1906

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91.
Old time pine log hut : with an African American woman and three children

Creator:

Raphael Tuck & Sons.

Date:

October 10, 1906

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92.
Still Hunt in Santiago, Chestertown, Md. : an African American woman with a child's head in her lap

Date:

November 1906

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Way down yonder in the cornfield : an African American woman and man sitting on a porch [hand colored]

Creator:

Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

Date:

December 1906

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94.
Cotton pickers resting

Creator:

Bingley, J. C.

Date:

1905

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95.
Old time method of cooking as used at Bascobet Farm : with an African American female cook in front of the fireplace

Creator:

Kishpaugh, R. A.

Date:

1905

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Picking cotton : African American men and African American women picking cotton with baskets of cotton, and a wagon and horse in the background

Creator:

Livingston, Arthur, 1883-1944.

Date:

October 1905

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97.
Vegetable vendor

Creator:

Albertype Co.

Date:

February 28, 1905

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An African American woman wearing a dress, apron and head scarf carrying a basket of cotton on her head, walking through cotton down a ramp from a door in a brick building, with an African American man standing in the doorway

Creator:

Albertype Co. (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Date:

December 21, 1904

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99.
Aunt Nancy : an African American woman holding a basket against her hip

Date:

February 1903

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Cake walkers-way down south in Dixie : three African American men and two women dressed up, with one playing a string instrument and walking a dog

Creator:

D. Van Wagenen (Savannah, Ga.)

Date:

January 31, 1903

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Still image

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