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1950s
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Calvert Street, ( Santiago) Original restaurant site, taxi stand of Charlie Graves circa 1950’s
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View to entrance of Charlie Graves Uptown Club Restaurant and Bar, Circa 1956
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Front view of entrance to Charlie Graves dance hall and bar, Circa 1956
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Family and friends of Charlie Graves, Bonita Prather, Margo Murray, and Hilda Graves, circa 1956
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Hilda Graves, circa 1958
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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.
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Inside Charlie Graves Uptown Club in Chestertown, MD, 1958
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Charlie Graves and wife Hilda Graves, circa 1954
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Son of Charlie Graves, Charles Waters at age 10, Christmas circa 1957
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Residence of Charlie Graves 100 Prospect St. Chestertown, MD 1954-1963
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Family Hanging Out in the Kitchen, August 1953
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Charlie Graves in front of Uptown Club, Chestertown, Md. Circa 1956
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Staff of "Garnett Whispers"
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Unidentified African American woman
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Rotary Club parade float
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Staff of "Garnett Whispers"
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Playing in snow
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Group of children
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LaMonte Cooke as a Baby, 1951
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LaMonte Cooke's 5th Birthday Party
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Dr. Edwin Shirley and nurses vaccinate patient Liberty City, FL
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Dr. Padgett, William Hargreaves, Mrs. Hargreaves, Mom Gladys Cooke, Rev. Clyde Davis, and young LaMonte Cooke at his Baptism, 1955
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LaMonte Cooke in High School Science Class, 1968
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Charlie Graves at the Uptown Club Bar, 1954
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Mrs. Marie Brown, Home Economics Teacher, and students in a Kennard High School classroom
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Detail of Mrs. Marie Brown, Home Economics Teacher, and students in a Kennard High School classroom
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Loreta Griffin at the Kennard High School graduation exercises, 1955
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Kennard High School teachers, June 1958
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Mabel Mary Hynson Tibbs Strother
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Mable Mary Strother as Young Woman
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Grandmother Harriet Hynson
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Unknown Family Soldier in Uniform
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Irene Wilson Moore as a Teenager
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Photograph of Family Members of Shirley Jones in the 1950s
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Shirley Jones' Family Members- Debbie, Mommom Ruth, and Troy, in the 1950s
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Group of young men at the Annual State New Farmers of America Rally
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