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Two boys and two girls dig a hole while planting a dogwood.On verso: "Basil [Contralson's] children plant dogwood."

Two Key Club members carry a shutter on the Vachel Lindsay Home porch while two other members scrub two shutters leaning against the building.

Key Club members perform landscaping work outside the Vachel Lindsay Home in Springfield. On verso: "Please leave at Board Monday for Elizabeth Graham."

Tom Robertson seeds an area in front of the Vachel Lindsay Home in Springfield, Illinois, while other unidentified Key Club members perform landscaping work.On verso: "Tom Robertson with seeder; Please leave at Switch Board Monday for Elizabeth…

Springfield High School teachers Elru Logan and Ellen Rourke and Dean of Boys Roy "Daddy" Wintz pose with clocks given to them upon their retirement. On verso: "Year of retirement from S. H. S. Gifts to them, clocks."

Susan E. Wilcox poses for a picture with a newspaper in her hands. Wilcox, a poet and Vachel Lindsay's English teacher at Springfield High School, not only became friends with Lindsay, but is also known to have helped inspire his writing of poetry.

Esther Catharine Frazee Lindsay, the mother of Vachel Lindsay, poses for a portrait wearing a dark jacket with a light colored blouse.

Vachel Lindsay and his wife, Elizabeth Conner Lindsay, pose for a picture with their children, Susan and Nicholas, on the steps in front of their home.

Vachel Lindsay and his wife, Elizabeth Conner Lindsay, pose for a picture on a couch with their children, Susan and Nicholas.

Vachel Lindsay poses for a photo in Cleveland, Ohio with his nephew, Vachel Lindsay Blair, the son of Vachel's sister, Joy Frazee Lindsay Blair.