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Apothecary Hall, established 1839, Frederiksted, St. Croix, V.I. : with African American women and children looking in the window, and a woman and child on the street

Creator:

Art Shop (Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands)

Date:

1839

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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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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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5.
Women and girls picking cotton

Creator:

Wilson & Co. (Savannah, Ga.)

Date:

June 4, 1865

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Oval portrait of an African American woman sitting.

Creator:

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917.

Date:

June 1870

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7.
Cotton gin in full blast, Florida

Creator:

Kilburn Brothers.

Date:

1879

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8.
A pastoral visit : African American men, women, and children gathered around the dinner table, with a banjo on a stool

Creator:

Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Date:

1881

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9.
Portrait of Sarah Ann Blunt

Creator:

Carter.

Date:

November 1884

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10.
African American men and women posing in a line, in front of a building

Date:

November 15, 1885

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

Date:

1890s

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14.
Aussie Clark, an African American woman, peeling potatoes

Creator:

Charleston, E. G. N.

Date:

September 1890

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15.
Plantation life : with two African American men, one playing a banjo, an African American woman and two children and a dog [hand colored]

Creator:

Havens, O. P.

Date:

1890 approx.

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16.
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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17.
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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Cotton picking : eight African American women standing in a cotton field, one with a basket of cotton on her shoulders and two cotton baskets on the ground

Creator:

Albertype Co. (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Date:

February 23, 1892

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Kitchen at the home of Mary, the mother of Washington. Fredericksburg, Va. : with an old African American woman in front of the fireplace

Creator:

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

Date:

1893

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Three African American men, one woman and two children standing and sitting outside a log cabin in Jacksonville, Fla. in 1893

Creator:

O. Pierre Havens.

Date:

1893

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21.
Blackberries and milk : African American mother with two children

Creator:

Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Date:

1894 approx.

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22.
Mrs. William Scott next to a table full of books

Creator:

Crowder.

Date:

1894

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23.
Special Southern Views : 182, Cotton Picking

Creator:

Russell Bros.

Date:

1895

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24.
African American woman standing in a field in Muchakinock, Iowa

Date:

October 1896

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

Creator:

Campbell, Alfred S.

Date:

1896 approx.

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26.
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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27.
Honey, does yo' lub yo' man? : an African American wedding

Creator:

Knaffl & Bro. (Knoxville, Tenn.)

Date:

1897 approx.

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Still image

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28.
Small log cabin on the grounds of Biltmore House, with men, women, and children doing various jobs

Creator:

Lindsey, T. H. (Thomas H.)

Date:

1897

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29.
Tennessee Centennial : portrait of an African American woman in a dress

Date:

1897

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30.
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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31.
African American woman plowing a field using a horse [hand colored]

Creator:

Huld, Franz.

Date:

May 19, 1898

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32.
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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33.
In a Negro-village : African American men and women in front of a row of houses, with the man on a horse-drawn cart

Creator:

Huld, Franz.

Date:

May 19, 1898

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34.
Ladies' bath, Warm Springs, Va.

Date:

May 19, 1898

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35.
Learning to dance early : African American children dancing [hand colored]

Creator:

Huld, Franz.

Date:

May 19, 1898

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36.
No place like home : an African American man and two women sitting outside a wood hut

Date:

May 19, 1898

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37.
Wash day

Creator:

Albertype Co.

Date:

May 19, 1898

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38.
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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39.
Portrait of Maria Pathill White, 8th

Creator:

Dimshee.

Date:

1900

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40.
Weighing up the cotton at dinner hour

Creator:

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

Date:

1900

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41.
Aunt Phoebe, Magnolia-on-the-Ashley, Charleston, S.C. [hand colored]

Creator:

Detroit Photographic Co.

Date:

1901 approx.

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Still image

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Aunt Phoebe, Magnolia-on-the-Ashley, Charleston, S.C. [hand colored]

Creator:

Detroit Photographic Co.

Date:

1901 approx.

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43.
My old cabin home : an old African American man sitting on a porch : Seach and research : an African American woman checking the head of a girl [hand colored]

Creator:

Detroit Photographic Co.

Date:

1901 approx.

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44.
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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45.
African American men, women and children picking cotton in a cotton field, carrying large baskets

Creator:

Coleman.

Date:

November 1903

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46.
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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48.
Cotton picking : a group of African American men and women

Date:

November 15, 1903

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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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50.
Confederate Monument, Aiken, S.C. [hand colored]

Creator:

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

Date:

1904 approx.

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51.
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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52.
Portrait of Blanche Thompson in a dress and J. Homer Tutt in a suit

Date:

between 1904 and 1906

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53.
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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54.
Bedford, Virginia : an African American man sitting : an African American woman in front of a cabin

Date:

July 1905

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55.
Cotton pickers resting

Creator:

Bingley, J. C.

Date:

1905

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56.
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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57.
Five African American men and women next to a 20th Century Soap sign

Date:

April 17, 1905

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58.
In the cotton field : African American men, women and children standing around a horse-drawn cart in a cotton field

Date:

March 1905

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59.
Miss N.H. Burroughs, A.M., addressing the Great World's Baptist Congress Demonstration Meeting, Hyde Park, London, England, July 18, 1905

Creator:

Douglass Improvement Co. (Louisville, Ky.)

Date:

July 18, 1905

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60.
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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Still image

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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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62.
Vegetable vendor

Creator:

Albertype Co.

Date:

February 28, 1905

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63.
African American men eating lunch in front of a small grass covered building, on a sugar plantation

Date:

August 1906

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64.
African American woman wearing a dress and a hat

Creator:

Huffman (Chillicothe, Mo.)

Date:

March 3, 1906

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African American woman wearing a headwrap carrying a bunch of bananas on her head [hand colored]

Creator:

Huld, Franz.

Date:

May 9, 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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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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69.
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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70.
Melle Ai_da, danseuse exotique

Date:

July 1906

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71.
Mountain farming near Asheville, N.C. : African American man, woman and child plowing a field using cows [hand colored]

Creator:

Carter & Gut (N.Y.)

Date:

March 16, 1906

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72.
Oh dem watermillion

Creator:

Albertype Co. (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Date:

February 4, 1906

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73.
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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74.
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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75.
Our southern beauty : an African American woman with a bow in her hair

Date:

January 8, 1906

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76.
Solid comfort : an African American woman sitting by a fireplace

Creator:

Newman Hungerford (Hartford, Conn.)

Date:

1906

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77.
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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78.
Two African American women in dresses standing next to an African American boy in a hat

Date:

June 8, 1906

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79.
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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80.
[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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81.
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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82.
African American men, women and children picking cotton on Ferrill Farm, in Jackson County, Arkansas

Date:

May 1907

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83.
An African American woman in a dress holding a closed parasol

Date:

April 5, 1907

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84.
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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85.
The Baltimore Orioles women's basketball team holding a trophy

Creator:

Penn Studio.

Date:

April 4, 1907

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86.
A baptism

Creator:

Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959.

Date:

1907 approx.

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87.
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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88.
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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89.
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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90.
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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91.
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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92.
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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93.
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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Still image

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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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95.
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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96.
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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97.
An old African American woman holding a stick, with two dogs

Date:

April 6, 1907

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98.
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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Still image

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99.
Picking cotton : two African American women and an African American boy and African American girl in a field picking cotton with basket filled with cotton

Date:

September 23, 1907

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100.
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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