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The caption of the photographer Cincinnati’s Sixth Street Market has young chicken vendors. Heyman Mormer, age nine, 732 Kenyon Ave. Willie Mormer, 12, of 732 […]

Moving soybean hay to the barn at the Lake Dick Project in Arkansas.

The last surviving former slave in the region is Nancy Bradford. Born on January 4th, 1851, she worked as a nurse for a family in […]

The Conner family is seen outside their home in Gatlinburg’s Glades neighborhood. (L to R) Lona Conner McClure (1890–1976), Ida Etter Conner King (1885–1951), and […]

A couple sits on a bench outside a church.

  In the summer of 1908, the Smith family of Kansas embarked on a journey emblematic of the American pioneer spirit. With their life’s belongings […]

Tennessee’s Claiborne County, 1940s–1950s… Picture of a little child comforting a weeping infant. The unidentified girl in the picture is smiling and cradling a baby […]

The caption of the photographer Hyman Bachwald, New York, 167 Allen Street. both epileptic and neurotic. Before being married, Mother worked in a factory, and […]

A man and his daughter are sitting on a bed outside in the Mays Avenue camp under a bridge. The Oklahoma City area…  

Louisiana’s Baton Rouge, 1861–1865… Two unidentified escaped slaves in torn clothing/ Taken in Baton Rouge by McPherson & Oliver

Five young girls, all dressed in white, are pictured posing on a house’s porch. Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image sometime between […]

Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image of a woman sitting outside with piles of lumber in the backdrop sometime between 1896 and […]