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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. : as he spoke his never-to-be-forgotten words at the Freedom March to Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963 - I have a dream

Creator:: WYCO Colour Productions (Ambler, Pa.)
Date:: August 28, 1963
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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Masai Warrior in Jungle Town at Africa U.S.A., Boca Raton, Fla.

Creator:: F.E.C. News Co. (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
Date:: August 21, 1956
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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American Wax Museum, Fifth Street between Market and Chestnut,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : the slave market : human beings sold at auction, at left, Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" stirred great anti-slavery feeling, at right, Harriet Tubman, Negro abolitionist, a leader in the underground R.R.

Creator:: WYCO Colour Productions (Ambler, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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The deep south : this scene typifies pre-war plantation life, in a non-mechanized age, slaves were vital to an economy based on cotton production, the plantation owners were the country's aristocrats

Creator:: Gettysburg Souvenir Center, Inc. (Gettysburg, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Log In Required

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The deep south : this scene typifies pre-war plantation life, in a non-mechanized age, slaves were vital to an economy based on cotton production, the plantation owners were the country's aristocrats

Creator:: Gettysburg Souvenir Center, Inc. (Gettysburg, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Log In Required

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Dr. George Washington Carver, whose experiments with peanuts, sweet potatoes and other crops contributed greatly to the economy of the South, is among the many life-size wax figures of famous people at the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum in State Fair Park at Dallas, Texas

Creator:: Southwestern Historical Wax Museum (Dallas, Tex.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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Emancipation proclamation : this proclamation, issued Jan. 1, 1863, declared that the slaves in the secessionist states should be free because those states had not returned to the Union by that date, here a Union officer is telling slaves in a rebel state that they are now free

Creator:: Civil War Souvenir Center (Gettysburg, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Log In Required

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George Washington Carver - 1864-1943 : his research in agricultural chemistry promoted the lowly peanut from obscurity to a crop of great industrial value

Creator:: Washington Novelty Inc. (Washington, D.C.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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Hall of Presidents Wax Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado, scene 9, the tragic years, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Black family

Creator:: Sanborn Souvenir Company.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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Headhunter Country : entering headhunter country on a trip down the Rivers of Adventure, a jungle boat passes colorfully costumed natives celebrating the kill of a lion in their village along the river banks

Creator:: Walt Disney Productions.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Log In Required