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Fairfield youth baseball players assist in maintaining the grounds near the Fairfield baseball diamond.

A youth baseball player swings at a pitch.

Fairfield youth baseball players, sponsored by Davis & Son Oil Company, pose for a team picture with their managers.

A father gives his infant child a bath in the bathroom sink.

A young man with a dark beard smiles for a photograph.

A man with a beard poses for a photograph in front of a display of smoking pipes.

A man with a small beard stands outside near a street for a photograph.

A boy in a cowboy outfit sings while a girl plays the accordian during the talent of the Wayne White County beauty contest held in Fairfield.

A beauty contestant with an accordian walks through other contestants gathered outside a tent during a beauty pageant sponsored by the Rural Electrification Administration (REA).

Beauty contestants sit outside a tent during a beauty pageant sponsored by the Rural Electrification Administration (REA).

Beauty contestants await their entry into the Wayne White County beauty contest held in Fairfield.

Beauty contestants take the stage and display their evening wear at the Wayne White County beauty contest held in Fairfield.

A woman gets a perm in an beauty shop.On verso: "Mrs. Logan Mitchell-Beauty Shop-Mrs. William Best & son Bobby Lee."

Several beauticians manipulate a perm machine at a beauty shop.

Betty Moratz Singh poses in the forest among rocks, plants, and trees. Betty was born October 4, 1920 in Akron, Ohio to Armin Moratz and Ada Rush Moratz. The Moratz family relocated to Bloomington, and after marrying Bhagat Singh in Chicago on June…

Bible school children march in a parade in downtown Fairfield.

A ground view shows a group performing a bicycle high wire act near a large city building.

Bishop William O'Connor walks behind two rows of priests and two altar servers prior to officiating a confirmation service at an unidentified church.

Several men sit with thermometers in their mouths during a bloodmobile event.

A woman sits with a thermometer in her mouth at a blood bank.

Two children, including a one year old and a two year old, prepare to blow out the candles atop their birthday cakes while party guests watch.

Bobby Lee Best poses for a photograph while his mother has her hair styled.On verso: "Mrs. Logan Mitchell-Beauty Shop-Mrs. William Best & son Bobby Lee."

Workers perform maintenance on a bowling pin setter in a bowling alley.

Employees prepare orders at a soda fountain and ice cream parlor.

A boy stricken with polio reads a book as a girl sitting next to him turns the page.