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Library of the Paul Laurance Dunbar home

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The library in the Paul Laurence Dunbar home at 219 North Summit Street, Dayton, Ohio has an upholstered chair and a day bed on either side of a five-shelf book shelf with sagging shelves filled with...

Little Orphan Annie's great-grandchildren

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Little Orphan Annie's (Mary Alice Smith Gray's) great grandchildren, Marion Ruth Colestock, age 9, and Donald Edwin Colestock, age 6, stand on the banks of Old Brandywine, a creek that runs near the...

Date Published
1939-10-05

Lizette Woodworth Reese

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A portrait photograph of Lizette Woodworth Reese wearing eyeglasses, a necklace, and a square-neckline frock. She lived in Baltimore, Maryland.

Date Published
1940-02-04

Lizette Woodworth Reese's home

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Poet Lizette Woodworth Reese's home in Baltimore Maryland is a three story brick building with a covered front porch the full-width of the house, a garland frieze under the roofline, and shutters on...

Date Published
1940-02-04

Louisa May Alcott's home "Orchard House"

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Louisa May Alcott's home called the Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts has many trees in the front yard and a cross-plank wooden fence.

Date Published
1936-11-08

Mark Twain's cabin

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The Mark Twain cabin in Mark Twain State Park in Monroe County, Missouri is a small clapboard home with only two front windows and a plain front door. In this photograph, the roof, porch, and...

Date Published
1940-10-27

Miss Darien, Dick Bertrandias, and Ted Malone

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Ted Malone seated in a rocking chair, speaks into a NBC KPO microphone and holds a script as Miss Darien and Dick Bertrandias sit to his right inside the home of Joaquin Miller during a broadcast. A...

Date Published
1940-03-31

NBC broadcast from the Joyce Kilmer Memorial

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An NBC Broadcast in front of Joyce Kilmer Memorial Shrine in Brunswick, New Jersey brings a group of people (white women, men, and one girl seen) to the front of the house. One gentleman watches the...

Date Published
1939-11-12

New Poetry Room at the Library of Congress

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The Poetry Room under construction at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. This is where Ted Malone's "Pilgrimage" was launched. Three arches to the left over the windows. Two bookcases at the...

Date Published
1939-10-15

Noah Webster's house

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Noah Webster's house in West Hartford, Connecticut is a two-story clapboard, Federal style house with shuttered windows and one chimney.

Date Published
1940-10-13

O'Henry's home in New York City

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O'Henry's (William S. Porter's) home at 55 Irving Place in New York City, New York was an apartment building above a cleaning service and above a restaurant. A 1939 Chrysler is parked in front.

Date Published
1940-12-15

O'Henry's old house in Austin, Texas

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O'Henry's (William S. Porter's) old house in Austin, Texas is a farm-style house with a sunburst roofline truss on the front, a few broken shutters, gingerbread accents around the porch, and a gated...

Date Published
1940-12-15

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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A head shot photograph of Oliver Wendell Holmes wearing a bow tie outside the collar of his shirt, a suit jacket over a vest.

Date Published
1940-01-14

One-story brick house

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An unidentified painted brick, one-story house with a steep overhanging roof and a chimney at each end.

Date Published
1939
1945

Parlor of the Paul Laurance Dunbar home

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The carpeted parlor of the Paul Laurence Dunbar home at 219 North Summit Street, Dayton, Ohio, has two unidentified African American girls sitting on a love seat by a mantel with a clock on it. The...

Date Published
1940-03-03