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Mrs. Alkire and Miss Dora Carr seated at a switchboard operating station.

Maud Henry standing next to a switchboard operating station.

Three telephone company employees pose for a picture.

An animal pen equipped with heat lamps contains many young pigs.On verso: "IL. Rural Electric-Special Section"

Photo caption: "Well-fed little pigs."

Portrait of John Pierik and his large family.

Three teenage boys take pictures of each other in the living room of a home.

Picking Tables Dering No.2 at the Sahara Coal Company, Harrisburg, showing several employees picking coal from conveyor belts.

Seven men stand in an arena in front of a gentleman labeled "Mr. Larkin." The crowd looks to Mr. Larkin who gives the men the "thumbs down" gesture and signals for them to leave while a policeman rushes forward with a large hook.Political cartoonist…

A picket line of photographers and reporters striking against the Hearst Corporation in Chicago. The Hearst Corporation, founded by William Randolph Hearst, became the largest media conglomerate in the world in the 1920s and has had continued success…

The Piazza of St. Peter's as viewed from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. Although the obelisk at the center of the square was erected in 1568, the square itself was not designed until the mid 1600's by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

A woman performs at the piano.

Students perform experiments in the school's science laboratory.

John Wilkes Booth gives Isabel Sumner four photographs of himself in a variety of poses. In one photo Booth is seated, holding a cane. On the reverse side of this photo Booth writes: "Yours with affection J. Wilkes Booth." A second offers a left side…

John Wilkes Booth gives Isabel Sumner four photographs of himself in a variety of poses. In this photo Booth wears a black coat and hat in a pose that has him leaning his left arm against a bannister while facing the camera at his right. Booth…

John Wilkes Booth gives Isabel Sumner four photographs of himself in a variety of poses. In this photo Booth wears a black suit under an open grey coat and faces the camera. On the reverse side of the photograph is inscribed in pencil: J. W. Booth.

John Wilkes Booth gives Isabel Sumner four photographs of himself in a variety of poses. In this photo Booth strikes a standing pose facing to his left. On the reverse side of this photograph is the photographer's mark with a cancelled two-cent…

Two men stand next to a telephone and several wires.

A man looks at a large switchboard mainframe.

Phoebe "Jennie" Sadorus, wife of G. W. B. Sadorus, sits outdoors with a dog. On verso: "Aunt Jennie Sadorus."

A landscape view features Philo Castle Farm in Wilmington, Vermont, the birthplace of Emeline Castle Graves.

This manuscript reports the grades of each student enrolled at the Phillips Exeter Academy during the time Robert Todd Lincoln was a student there.