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1.
Diorama of Stephen Foster's song Old Black Joe, 1860 at the Stephen Foster Memorial on the Suwannee River, White Springs, Florida

Creator:

Curt Teich & Co.

Date:

1860

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2.
Sister Johnson wearing a robe, holding an open book in one hand, with her other hand pointing upwards

Creator:

Penn Studio.

Date:

June 1860

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Coloured school at Alexandria Va. 1864 taught by Harriet Jacobs & daughter agents of New York Friends

Date:

1864

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4.
Women and girls picking cotton

Creator:

Wilson & Co. (Savannah, Ga.)

Date:

June 4, 1865

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5.
Oval portrait of an African American woman sitting.

Creator:

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917.

Date:

June 1870

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6.
Cotton gin in full blast, Florida

Creator:

Kilburn Brothers.

Date:

1879

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7.
Portrait of Sarah Ann Blunt

Creator:

Carter.

Date:

November 1884

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8.
African American men and women posing in a line, in front of a building

Date:

November 15, 1885

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9.
There is money in cotton : an African American woman in a dress and bonnet standing in front of a pile of baskets filled with cotton, with one hand open showing several coins

Creator:

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

Date:

1886

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Still image

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10.
An African American woman in a dress carrying a U.S. flag standing underneath a tree next to an elderly woman seated in a chair with a child standing in front of her with a dirt road and house behind them

Date:

1888

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11.
African American men and women picking cotton in Alexandria Valley, Alabama

Date:

1890s

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12.
An African American man holding his hat, and a woman in a dress, holding a handkerchief

Creator:

Bouer (Slater, Mo.)

Date:

1891

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13.
An African American man wearing a suit and hat, and a woman wearing a dress and hat, standing on either side of a cement wall

Creator:

Strauss.

Date:

1891

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14.
Blackberries and milk : African American mother with two children

Creator:

Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Date:

1894 approx.

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15.
Mrs. William Scott next to a table full of books

Creator:

Crowder.

Date:

1894

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16.
Special Southern Views : 182, Cotton Picking

Creator:

Russell Bros.

Date:

1895

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17.
The living skeleton : African American women and children on a porch

Creator:

Campbell, Alfred S.

Date:

1896 approx.

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18.
A chocolate drop : an African American women in a cotton field with a basket on her head

Creator:

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

Date:

1897

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Still image

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19.
Honey, does yo' lub yo' man? : an African American wedding

Creator:

Knaffl & Bro. (Knoxville, Tenn.)

Date:

1897 approx.

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20.
Tennessee Centennial : portrait of an African American woman in a dress

Date:

1897

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21.
Wake up and join us : African American men and women singing from books and an African American man conducting

Creator:

Knaffl & Bro. (Knoxville, Tenn.)

Date:

1897 approx.

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Still image

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22.
Greetings from the sunny south : a still hunt : African American children and a woman sitting on stairs

Creator:

D. Van Wagenen (Savannah, Ga.)

Date:

May 19, 1898

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23.
Wash day

Creator:

Albertype Co.

Date:

May 19, 1898

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24.
A negro school in Florida, with men women and children standing outside [hand colored]

Creator:

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

Date:

June 26, 1900

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25.
Portrait of Maria Pathill White, 8th

Creator:

Dimshee.

Date:

1900

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26.
Weighing up the cotton at dinner hour

Creator:

Graves, C. H. (Carleton H.), -1943.

Date:

1900

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27.
African American men on a horse-drawn cart full of cotton, with a girl and woman standing next to the cart, in Mobile, Alabama

Creator:

E. O. Zadek Jewelry Co. (Mobile, Ala.)

Date:

March 19, 1903

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Still image

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28.
Aunt Nancy : an African American woman holding a basket against her hip

Date:

February 1903

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29.
Cotton picking : a group of African American men and women

Date:

November 15, 1903

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30.
Confederate Monument, Aiken, S.C. [hand colored]

Creator:

Rotograph Co. (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1904 approx.

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31.
Family consisting of two women, a man, four girls and a dog, along with an African American woman, standing in front of a house

Date:

March 24, 1904

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32.
Portrait of Blanche Thompson in a dress and J. Homer Tutt in a suit

Date:

between 1904 and 1906

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33.
Portrait of Mary L. Harrod in a long sleeved floor length dress and a long necklace

Creator:

Marshall's Studio.

Date:

January 3, 1904

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34.
Bedford, Virginia : an African American man sitting : an African American woman in front of a cabin

Date:

July 1905

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35.
Don't you git gay with me : portrait of an African American woman wearing a feathered hat, with a stick in her hand

Creator:

Knaffl & Bro. (Knoxville, Tenn.)

Date:

1905 approx.

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36.
Five African American men and women next to a 20th Century Soap sign

Date:

April 17, 1905

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Still image

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37.
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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38.
Vegetable vendor

Creator:

Albertype Co.

Date:

February 28, 1905

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39.
African American woman wearing a dress and a hat

Creator:

Huffman (Chillicothe, Mo.)

Date:

March 3, 1906

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Still image

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40.
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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Still image

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41.
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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42.
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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43.
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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44.
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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45.
The Ole Mammie : an African American woman sitting next to a log cabin in New Orleans, La.

Creator:

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

Date:

October 26, 1906

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46.
Our southern beauty : an African American woman with a bow in her hair

Date:

January 8, 1906

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47.
Solid comfort : an African American woman sitting by a fireplace

Creator:

Newman Hungerford (Hartford, Conn.)

Date:

1906

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48.
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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49.
Two African American women in dresses standing next to an African American boy in a hat

Date:

June 8, 1906

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50.
[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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51.
African American men and women crossing the street next to the Monumental A.M.E. Church, in Steelton, Pennsylvania

Date:

1907

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52.
An African American woman in a dress holding a closed parasol

Date:

April 5, 1907

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53.
The Baltimore Orioles women's basketball team holding a trophy

Creator:

Penn Studio.

Date:

April 4, 1907

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54.
A busy day in darky town, Miami, Fla. : African American men and women washing clothes in front of a house

Creator:

Gerlach, A. P.

Date:

February 1907

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55.
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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Still image

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56.
Gaud bless you, honey : portrait of an African American woman [hand colored]

Creator:

Royster, J.

Date:

1907 approx.

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Still image

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57.
A large group of African American men and women, in suits and dresses, in front of a brick building with columns

Date:

1907

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58.
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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Still image

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59.
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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Still image

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60.
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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61.
An old African American woman holding a stick, with two dogs

Date:

April 6, 1907

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62.
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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63.
Scene in Concord, N.C. [hand colored]

Creator:

Faust, O. V.

Date:

January 31, 1907

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Still image

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64.
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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65.
Two African American women in dresses standing next to each other

Date:

July 19, 1907

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66.
Typical Negro cabin

Creator:

J.C. Patrick (Chester, S.C.)

Date:

May 1907

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67.
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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68.
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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69.
Whoa Maud : an African American man and woman riding in a mule-drawn cart

Creator:

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

Date:

October 2, 1907

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70.
Large crowd of African American men and women standing in front of a church

Creator:

Simmons, H. D.

Date:

1908

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71.
Love Joy and cart

Creator:

Field, A. S.

Date:

March 1908

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72.
Mrs. Lena Mason's Chautauqua meetings, Philadelphia, Pa.

Date:

1908

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73.
A negro baptizing in Dixie Land [hand colored]

Creator:

J.F. Bell Co. (Lynchburg, Va.)

Date:

December 17, 1908

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Still image

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74.
Roll call : African American women and children outside a wooden building [hand colored]

Creator:

Souvenir Post Card Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

January 16, 1908

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Still image

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75.
The South that is no more : a woman sitting on a set of stairs, with her arms around an African American womans' shoulders [hand colored]

Creator:

Leach, Dixie W.

Date:

February 18, 1908

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Still image

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76.
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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77.
Two African American men, two African American women, and a stuffed donkey

Date:

June 9, 1908

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78.
An African American man, woman and child picking cotton

Date:

May 7, 1909

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79.
An African American woman crouched on the ground, posing with eleven children [hand colored]

Date:

April 29, 1909

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80.
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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81.
Queen of Hog Alley, Jefferson City, Mo. [hand colored]

Date:

January 15, 1909

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82.
Rapid transit (limited) : African American women and children on an ox-drawn carriage

Creator:

The Tourist (Southern Pines, N.C.)

Date:

January 11, 1909

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83.
Southern horseless carriage

Creator:

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

Date:

February 25, 1909

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84.
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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85.
The William Pickens family

Date:

July 10, 1909

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86.
An African American woman in a pink dress, sitting on a dressing table [hand colored]

Creator:

D B Co.

Date:

September 12, 1910

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Still image

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87.
Black woman worker, prob. Fla. ca. 1910

Date:

1910

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88.
Buck Lovejoy, the vegetable peddler, Fitzgerald, Ga.

Creator:

International Post Card & Mfg. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

Date:

January 1, 1910

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Still image

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89.
Faithful Lewis of 70 years at Arlington : carrying a tray of camellas to the house

Creator:

Rotograph Co.

Date:

December 21, 1910

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Still image

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90.
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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Still image

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91.
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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Still image

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92.
Portrait of Blanche Thompson, posing on a chair

Date:

1910 approx.

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Still image

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93.
Silver Springs, Fla. : steamboat landing and railway station

Creator:

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

Date:

October 1910

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94.
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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95.
African American man in a suit sitting next to an African American woman in a dress and hat, at the Lynchburg Fair, October 1911

Date:

October 1911

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96.
African American woman in a dress, weighing India Louise Stauskey, an infant wrapped in a cloth

Date:

July 1911

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97.
African American woman sitting on a chair wearing a dress, coat and a hat

Date:

October 25, 1911

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Still image

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98.
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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Still image

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99.
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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Still image

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100.
Rapid transit (limited) : African American women and children on an ox-drawn carriage

Creator:

The Tourist (Southern Pines, N.C.)

Date:

March 17, 1911

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Still image

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