Year: 2024
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Claiborne County, Tennessee, 1940s…
Photographs by Joe Clark HBSS documented daily life in Claiborne County from the past. Take, for instance, this 1940s photo…
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1916 in Kentucky…
The caption of the photographer Eleven-year-old Homer Hunt harvesting berries. Says he has made $10 picking and has been out…
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Reidsville, North Carolina, 1939
Tobacco Bag Stringing: MRS. EUGENIA ALLEN; married, with three children and four grandchildren living with her; 51 years old; husband…
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I adore photos of front porches!
1937 in Georgia… Caption: Family of cotton sharecroppers. Georgia’s Macon County…
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1940s in Louisiana…
At La Delta Project, farm supervisor Eugene T. Martin is talking with George Campbell about the cotton crop while Campbell…
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West Virginia and Ohio, 1896–1912…
Along the front steps of her home, a young girl is standing with her dog. Albert J. Ewing, a traveling…
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Capturing History: Meet Hannah Stilley, The First Person Photographed Born in the 1700s
The photo was taken in 1840 and features Hannah Stilley. Why does this matter? She was the first person to…
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Life in Late 19th Century Tennessee: A Glimpse into Carter County, 1890
A Family Portrait at Joe Hughes’ House In the heart of Tennessee’s Carter County, the late 19th century was a…
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North Carolina, 1939
Tobacco Bag Stringing: KEMP, MRS. BESSIE, Hunting Creek, N.C., age 25, husband 30; three young children. INCOME: Her husband is…
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1937 in Wisconsin: A Snapshot of Life and Times
Art Simplot and family outside their home in the Wisconsin town of Black River Falls. A Year of Transformation and…
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Capturing the Past: Conversations with a Couple from the Turn of the Century
Capturing the Past: Conversations with a Couple from the Turn of the Century In the late 19th and early 20th…
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1939 in North Carolina…
Tobacco Bag Stringing: JOHNSON, MRS. FLOSSIE, a colored woman who resides in Reidsville, North Carolina, with her seven children after…
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