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Description:: Wiley Hinds in a cart hitched to a horse on his farm, with a pile of pumpkins on the ground on the right and a farm building behind him.
Date:: [1880s-1914]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Frederick Madison Roberts was a newspaper owner and editor, educator, and business owner. He was also the first African American elected to the California State Assembly. Roberts was a great-grandson of Sally Hemings and President Thomas Jefferson.
Date:: [circa 1896]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Worker standing on a wagon pulled by a mule team on a farm. This might be the farm of Wiley Hinds in the area of Kaweah and Mineral King vicinity in Tulare County.
Date:: [1880s-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Charlemae Hill Rollins (1897-1979) was a pioneering librarian, author and storyteller in the area of African-American literature. During her thirty-one years as head librarian of the children’s department at the Chicago Public Library as well as after her retirement, she instituted substantial reforms in children’s literature.
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Wiley Hinds was a wealthy California rancher and farmer in the area of Kaweah and Mineral King, in Tulare County. His daughter, Pearl, married Frederick Madison Roberts.
Date:: [circa 1897]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Farm worker stands in the middle of plots of drying fruit at the ranch of Wiley Hinds.
Date:: [1880s-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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