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Duplicate photographs received by exchange from the Library of Congress in the 1950's. Many of these amateur works reveal a candid intimacy with lives in rural and urban America.

Picture Collection transfer (1992) to the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

Parlor entertainment,
Brooklyn, New York.
ca. 1889.

Rural cabin in upstate
New York. ca. 1900.

Gardening. ca. 1900.

Emmett Place off
Stockton Street, San
Francisco, 1906. Photograph
by Frances F. Matson.

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