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1.
The sand hill special, Southern Pines, N.C. : African American man on an ox-drawn carriage

Creator:

Illustrated Post Card Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

May 27, 1968

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Colorful horse drawn carriages add to the historic atmosphere of old St. Augustine, Florida

Creator:

Florida Souvenir Co. (Saint Augustine, Fla.)

Date:

July 13, 1966

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Statue of Abraham Lincoln and a freed slave with the word Emancipation engraved on the bottom, and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln

Date:

May 28, 1966

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African American men passing tobacco leaves on laths to a man hanging them to cure

Date:

September 24, 1963

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Cotton pickin' : African American men and women picking cotton

Date:

May 13, 1959

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Harvesting cigar wrapper tobacco : African American men and women holding harvested tobacco leaves next to boxes and a horse in a tobacco field, in Quincy, Florida

Creator:

S., F. E.

Date:

1954

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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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Fishing is good in Dixie : three African American men fishing, with two in a boat

Creator:

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

Date:

April 11, 1952

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Priming tobacco on a Virginia plantation

Creator:

Virginia State Chamber of Commerce.

Date:

May 15, 1951

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10.
Come on down, I'se waiting for you in Florida

Creator:

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

Date:

August 2, 1950

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The Ink Spots

Date:

1950s

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The Cabin Boys : three African American men playing various stringed instruments in front of a microphone

Date:

February 20, 1948

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13.
The King Cole Trio

Date:

January 17, 1945

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A typical cotton picking scene : five African American men picking cotton [hand colored]

Creator:

M W M (Aurora, Mo.)

Date:

October 21, 1945

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Pistol practice, U.S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Ill.

Date:

September 27, 1944

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A typical negro baptizing

Creator:

Worrell Associates (Shreveport, La.)

Date:

February 1944

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Two portraits of Eddie Rector, one photo of him playing trombone, one with him dancing on stage with a band behind him, and one with him dancing on a sidewalk

Creator:

Campbell's Photo Art (Dayton, Ohio)

Date:

April 20, 1943

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African American men harvesting cranberries using machinery

Creator:

Tichnor Bros, Inc. (Boston, Mass.)

Date:

August 19, 1941

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19.
Five African American military officers standing on a lawn holding sabers, with a large crowd watching from behind

Date:

September 16, 1938

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20.
Only a turpentine still down south

Creator:

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

Date:

October 28, 1935

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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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A Kentucky tobacco field : group of African American men standing in a tobacco field, in Kentucky [hand colored]

Creator:

Kraemer Art Co.

Date:

May 25, 1932

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African American men and women standing in front of a car at a hospital

Date:

1926

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State Colored Normal School, Fayetteville, N.C.

Date:

July 11, 1924

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25.
African American students listening to a speech delivered at Wiley College chapel

Date:

September 12, 1922

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26.
Dress parade, Anniversary Day : Hampton Institute, Va.

Creator:

Albertype Co. (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Date:

May 4, 1921

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Negro slain in Tulsa riot, June 1-1921 : man standing over a dead African American man with his face covered lying in a street after the Tulsa race riot

Date:

June 1, 1921

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Transportation of cotton by road : an African American man with a whip riding on top of a flat wagon, loaded with cotton, pulled by oxen, with an African American man standing by the wagon

Date:

January 7, 1918

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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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30.
African American men in a tobacco factory, standing around a pile of tobacco holding rakes [hand colored]

Date:

August 17, 1916

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31.
Hardey Montgomery, born 1799, one hundred and sixteen years old

Creator:

E. C. Kropp Co.

Date:

1915

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32.
Scene in coconut grove, Florida : three African American men breaking open coconuts underneath trees [hand colored]

Creator:

Havens.

Date:

February 19, 1915

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33.
Gathering turtle eggs in Florida [hand colored]

Date:

March 22, 1914

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34.
Group of Atkinson College students

Date:

July 23, 1914

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35.
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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36.
Odd Fellows Band : African American men posing in uniform, with their musical instruments

Date:

September 20, 1914

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37.
A. & M. College for Colored People in Greensboro, N.C.

Creator:

S. H. Krebbs & Co.

Date:

October 10, 1913

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38.
African American men, women and children picking strawberries in a field in Charleston, South Carolina [hand colored]

Creator:

Detroit Publishing Co.

Date:

1913

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Still image

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39.
Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770 : Soldiers in uniforms shotting at each other, with Crispus Attucks being shot in the middle [hand colored]

Date:

April 12, 1913

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Jimbo, an African American cook, standing in a field wearing a hat, holding a bucket and spoon, in Camp Perry, Ohio

Date:

1913

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41.
Loading cotton on railway [hand colored]

Creator:

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

Date:

1913

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Still image

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42.
Wash day on the old plantation [hand colored]

Creator:

Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.)

Date:

February 3, 1913

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Still image

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African American men posing in front of orange trees [hand colored]

Date:

January 12, 1912

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44.
Fine sport, boating and fishing, Florida : with a man in a rowboat and another African American man in a canoe

Creator:

S. H. Krebbs & Co.

Date:

November 19, 1912

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45.
Fishing on Lake Weir, near Ocala, Fla. [hand colored]

Date:

March 4, 1912

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Still image

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46.
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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Still image

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A load of compressed cotton : two African American men riding on top of a loaded wagon pulled by two mules along a dirt road lined by a wooden fence [hand colored]

Date:

December 24, 1912

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Three African American men standing in front of a workshop, with advertising signs behind them, with one man holding a horse

Date:

June 1912

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49.
African American man tied to a post, being whipped by a man, with a large crowd watching

Date:

January 6, 1911

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50.
African American men and women carrying baskets of strawberries, with one of them using their head [hand colored]

Creator:

Cochrane Co. (Palatka, Fla.)

Date:

1911

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Still image

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51.
African American men, women and children picking cotton in a field, in Florida

Creator:

J. S. Pinkussohn, Cigar Co. (Jacksonville, Fla.)

Date:

December 11, 1911

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Still image

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De 'Possum Hunt Caught : an older African American man and a boy hunting a opossum

Creator:

Souvenir Post Card Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

March 30, 1911

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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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Narrow escape, Sanford, Fla. [hand colored]

Creator:

A.C. Bosselman & Co. (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

January 27, 1911

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A southern barbecue, Florida [hand colored]

Creator:

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

Date:

February 23, 1911

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24th U.S. Infantry passing through Watertown, N.Y.

Date:

August 18, 1910

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57.
An African American man looking at an opossum in a tree, with a dog on the ground

Date:

March 9, 1910

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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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60.
Envy [hand colored]

Date:

February 7, 1910

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61.
Negro roustabouts [hand colored]

Creator:

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

Date:

July 3, 1910

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Still image

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62.
Roosevelt speaking at National Negro Business League

Creator:

Culver Pictures, Inc. (New York)

Date:

1910

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63.
St. Petersburg, Fla. Fishing from the dock

Creator:

Raphael Tuck & Sons.

Date:

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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Tobacco growing : men, women and children standing in a covered tobacco field, in Gadsden County, Florida

Creator:

Valentine & Sons.

Date:

October 28, 1910

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66.
Uncle Jim

Date:

June 5, 1910

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African American men, women and girl picking cotton in a field

Date:

March 22, 1909

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Expectation : an African American man holding an opossum over a table with potatoes on it, and three other African American boys and a dog

Creator:

Allgood, Susie W.

Date:

1909 approx.

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Still image

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A Georgia family tree : an African American man with several opossums in a tree and holding one

Creator:

Allgood, Susie W.

Date:

1909 approx.

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Still image

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A good wagon load of Florida pineapple : [African American men in a horse drawn wagon with a giant pineapple] [hand colored]

Creator:

Cochrane Co. (Palatka, Fla.)

Date:

1909

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In Southern fields : African American men picking cotton, two talking with another man around a basket of cotton, some loading cotton onto a wagon, and a man on horseback in the background [hand colored]

Date:

September 4, 1909

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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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A prize winner : an African American man holding a turkey by the feet

Date:

November 24, 1909

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The return from the hunt : an African American man with an opossum on a stick and two dogs in front of him

Creator:

Allgood, Susie W.

Date:

1909 approx.

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Still image

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Sheep shearing out west : men shearing sheep, with men loading wool onto a cart in the background

Creator:

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

Date:

June 11, 1909

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Still image

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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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A tobacco field in Kentucky : two African American men harvesting tobacco in a field, in Kentucky [hand colored]

Creator:

Knight.

Date:

April 17, 1909

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Chickasaw Bluff, Vicksburg, Miss. [hand colored]

Creator:

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

Date:

February 13, 1908

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Still image

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Coke ovens at Birmingham, Ala. pulling coke [hand colored]

Creator:

International Post Card Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

July 13, 1908

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Still image

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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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83.
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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Still image

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A field of sweet peas : an African American man in a field of peas [hand colored]

Creator:

Rieder, M.

Date:

April 1908

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Still image

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Moving cotton on the levee, Memphis, Tenn. [hand colored]

Creator:

International Post Card Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

September 12, 1908

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Still image

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87.
Nobody works at our house

Creator:

Illustrated Post Card Co.

Date:

September 3, 1908

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Still image

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Nothing better : African American man with sliced watermelons

Creator:

Souvenir Post Card Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

October 3, 1908

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Still image

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African American man operating a sugarcane grinding machine being pulled by a horse, with stacks of sugarcane in the background [hand colored]

Date:

January 14, 1907

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African American men loading cotton bales onto a horse-drawn cart, with a man standing on top of the cotton

Date:

January 1907

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African American men, women and children picking cotton on Ferrill Farm, in Jackson County, Arkansas

Date:

May 1907

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92.
African American women plowing in a field on a strawberry farm, with a man standing in the background, along with another man standing on a horse-drawn cart

Date:

April 13, 1907

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93.
A baptism

Creator:

Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959.

Date:

1907 approx.

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Still image

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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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Still image

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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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Still image

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96.
Distilling turpentine

Creator:

E. F. W.

Date:

May 29, 1907

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Still image

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Eating sugar cane, Morgan City, LA : [African American man eating sugar cane on top of a pile of sugar cane]

Creator:

Souvenir Post Card Co. (N.Y.)

Date:

October 3, 1907

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Still image

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98.
Negro basket-maker

Creator:

Jamestown Amusement & Vending Co., Inc. (Norfolk, Va.)

Date:

1907

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Still image

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99.
Negroes scrambling for money

Creator:

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

Date:

March 1, 1907

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A pipe dream : an African American man holding his hand to his face

Creator:

Eckstone, C.

Date:

1907

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Still image

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