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Elaine and James Earl Hamilton dancing
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Elaine and James Earl Hamilton dancing

View to entrance of Charlie Graves Uptown Club Restaurant and Bar, Circa 1956
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View to entrance of Charlie Graves Uptown Club Restaurant and Bar, Circa 1956

Front view of entrance to Charlie Graves dance hall and bar, Circa 1956
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Front view of entrance to Charlie Graves dance hall and bar, Circa 1956

Loved Ones of Charlie Graves at a Night Out, Eloise Johnson, Robert “Pick” Robinson, Margaret Robinson, and Hilda Graves, circa 1959. 
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Loved Ones of Charlie Graves at a Night Out, Eloise Johnson, Robert “Pick” Robinson, Margaret Robinson, and Hilda Graves, circa 1959. 

Charlie Graves and wife Hilda Graves, circa 1954
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Charlie Graves and wife Hilda Graves, circa 1954

Monica and Karen, Daughters of Charlie and Hilda Graves, Outside Their New Home, circa 1965
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Monica and Karen, Daughters of Charlie and Hilda Graves, Outside Their New Home, circa 1965

Son of Charlie Graves, Charles Waters at age 10, Christmas circa 1957
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Son of Charlie Graves, Charles Waters at age 10, Christmas circa 1957

Family Hanging Out in the Kitchen, August 1953
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Family Hanging Out in the Kitchen, August 1953

Children of Charlie Graves - from the left: Monica Graves-age 3, Brian Graves-age 10, Karen Graves age 11
months. Circa 1960
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Children of Charlie Graves - from the left: Monica Graves-age 3, Brian Graves-age 10, Karen Graves age 11 months. Circa 1960

Black and white photo of a woman with two girls in front of a Christmas tree
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Black and white photo of a woman with two girls in front of a Christmas tree

Brain Graves, son of Charlie Graves, at home in Quaker Estates, circa 1969
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Brain Graves, son of Charlie Graves, at home in Quaker Estates, circa 1969

Charlie Graves and Family, first home in Quaker Estates.
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Charlie Graves and Family, first home in Quaker Estates.

Pokeno party at home of Charlie Graves
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Pokeno party at home of Charlie Graves

Front entrance of Charlie Graves Uptown Club, Chestertown, MD
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Front entrance of Charlie Graves Uptown Club, Chestertown, MD

William “Jake” Smith, a friend of Charlie Graves
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William “Jake” Smith, a friend of Charlie Graves

Beverly Murray (cousin of Monica Graves).
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Beverly Murray (cousin of Monica Graves).

Brian Graves and Margo Murray (cousin to Monica Graves) standing in front of the Uptown Club.
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Brian Graves and Margo Murray (cousin to Monica Graves) standing in front of the Uptown Club.

Charles Graves and his granddaughter Tonya Waters
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Charles Graves and his granddaughter Tonya Waters

Memorial Day picnic with Jazz Johnson and a Jones Brother at the residence of Mr. Charlie Graves
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Memorial Day picnic with Jazz Johnson and a Jones Brother at the residence of Mr. Charlie Graves

Shirley Sisco Jones, likely in Quaker Neck, MD, circa 1960s
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Shirley Sisco Jones, likely in Quaker Neck, MD, circa 1960s

Biography of Viola Walley Graves, grandmother of LaMonte Cooke
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Biography of Viola Walley Graves, grandmother of LaMonte Cooke

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Iris Mays Shirley and Ursula Faye Mays

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Grandmother Mary Cooper- LaMonte Cooke's grandmother's sister (Viola Walley Graves)

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The Jeffersons - LaMonte Cooke's cousins

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Pat Golightly, Robert Rochester, and Cholette Jennings, daughter, sister and cousin of LaMonte Cooke

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Cholette Jennings, LaMonte Cooke, and Michael Stockman (daughter and brother of LaMonte Cooke at the Rochester Family Reunion, 2017

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Donald and Edwin Shirley with their brothers and nephews

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LaMonte Cooke's Grandson Rashad's Recreational Football Photos

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Hutchins Family Dinner

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Airlee Ringgold Johnson talking to her Aunt Minnie Hutchins

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Janey Hutchins (wife of William Hutchins)

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The Hutchins Sisters - Gertrude Hutchins Manuel, Pauline Hutchins Wisher and Dorothy Hutchins Baynum

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Dorothy "Dottie" Hutchins

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Minnie Hutchins and Twin Sons at Christmas 1997

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The Hutchins Boys - Thomas Hutchins, Ronald Hutchins, William Hutchins Jr., Samuel Hutchins

Family Members Attending Carla Hynson's College Graduation at UMBC
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Family Members Attending Carla Hynson's College Graduation at UMBC

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