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"Americans all. Building planes in an Eastern aircraft factory is Lew Orne, Chinese, who has a mother, father, wife and four children still in China. Orne feels that the planes he builds will hasten the day of victory and bring about a reunion with his family. Republic Aircraft Corporation" Library of Congress

"Boyd Jones and his family going to Greensboro, on a Saturday afternoon, Greene County, Georgia" Library of Congress

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"Chafee, Missouri. Father and children waiting to see the doctor. The little girl was bitten by a dog and is to receive anti-hydrophobia injections" Library of Congress

"Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and his 2 boys. Robbie is 6 and Willie is 11 years old. Worming and suckering tobacco. Father says children will go to Rocky Ridge School when it opens. Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine." Library of Congress

"Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and his 2 boys. Robbie is 6 and Willie is 11 years old. Worming and suckering tobacco. Father says children will go to Rocky Ridge School when it opens. Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine." Library of Congress

"Colored Sink"-photo of text

Text: "Colored" Sink. Jim Crow practices mandated that there be no social or physical interactions between blacks and whites, especially in the workplace and in social settings. This hand washing sink, which once hung on a Portsmouth CSX Railroad…

Tags: Black history, Integration, Jim Crow, Library, Museum, National Register of Historic Places, Portsmouth Colored Community Library Museum, Portsmouth VA, Segregation

"Colored" sink-photo

"Colored" sink located at the Portsmouth Colored Community Library Museum. From CSX Railroad. c. 1945

Tags: Black history, CSX Railroad, Integration, Jim Crow, Library, Museum, National Register of Historic Places, Portsmouth Colored Community Library Museum, Portsmouth VA, Segregation

"Elmer Johnson's neckties. Bedroom in the home of a hired farmhand, thirty-six years old, and father of three children. Near Battle Ground, Indiana" Library of Congress

Because Father's Day would not be complete without the obligatory gift of neckties!

"Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia." Library of Congress

"Father and children, Chinatown, San Francisco" Library of Congress

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