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Churchgoers seated in pews of the St. Mark's Missionary Baptist Church honor Mrs. Blanchette (in usher uniform) as she is escorted down the middle aisle by two young unidentified women.
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This image captures the January 1961 Women's Missionary Meeting. The women are gathered in a room, posing for the camera.
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An unidentified woman stands in their backyard hanging laundry on Norman Road. Taken in February 1963.
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A photo taken in February 1963 depicting a neighbor's house on Norman Road.
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Sister Beatrice Wilcots is pictured in the middle, Effie Hinchen is standing, and Mrs. Thomas is on the right (Valley Truck Farms, 2019). They are at a February 1961 missionary meeting, likely celebrating a birthday given that two of the women are wearing party hats. The image reads, "FEB 61."
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1940s car in front of a neighbor's house possibly on Norman road.
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Father Garfield Hinchen holds both his granddaughters, Denisha and Tanika, while they watch their pigs eat. Sussie, the largest pig, is pictured in the center. The background depicts old scraps of wood pallets and posts around the property. This photo was taken on his property at 24618 Garfield Street. Garfield's one-acre land housed chickens, pigs, and crops like black-eyed peas, okra, and collard greens. He sold eggs and occasionally brought meat to a Mill Street location for processing, storing it in lockers for pickup. He also plowed fields by hand.
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Father Garfield Hinchen with granddaughters Denisha and Tanika behind a chicken coop on his property at 24618 Garfield Street. Garfield's one-acre land housed chickens, pigs, and crops like black-eyed peas, okra, and collard greens. He sold eggs and occasionally brought meat to a Mill Street location for processing, storing it in lockers for pickup. He also plowed fields by hand.
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Pastor Percy Harper posing with associate pastors in their formal church attire on the front steps of St. Mark's Missionary Baptist Church. Picture includes Left to Right Rev Llewelyn, Rev Williams, Pastor Harper, Rev Ruffan, Wilvis Brown, Minister Dennis Hackett.
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Mission meeting in a home after the church stopped having mission meetings at the church and started meeting at different women's homes for mission groups.
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Mr. William Bruce McMurray and Mrs.Imogene Garvin McMurray are dressed up for a portrait photo. Mr. McMurray is in a dress suit top and patterned tie and is wearing jeans. Mrs. McMurray is weating a patterned dress and also is wearing jewlery on her wrist, neck, and ears.
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A young Ilene and Gregory have a pretend "wedding " at St. Mark's Missionary Baptist Church, part of a Tom Thumb wedding.
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Oliver McMurray Sr. is leaning away playfully from someone offering him a stack of ribs
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Oliver Sr. seated at picnic table in backyeard, with a woman eating a rib and a man with a cast on his arm. A man in a green shirt with a brown cap is eating out of a plate in the far left corner.
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Oliver Jr and Oliver Sr. sit at a backyard picnic table for a barbeque in a backyard with a smoker in the background.
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The McMurray family poses for a formal portrait. In the back Row (L to R): Linda, Danny, Wendell & Larry & Front Row (L to R): Chris, William (father), Darrel, Imogene (mother), Ilene and Larry. Not pictured William Earnest.
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McDowell Cafe Calendar 1947. Ola McDowell and Willis McDowell moved to 787 Norman Road in 1942 and started a Barbeque restaruant on the southeast corner of Waterman and Central at 812 S Waterman. Here is an image of a restaurant calendar the family saved from 1947
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Family at Ola McDowell's front yard in Valley Truck Farm. Her grandchildren are sitting in the shade under a tree with a car and home in the background
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Ola McDowell in Valley Truck Farms in the backyard on her property
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Larry Hinchen and Richard Hinchen in a tub in a front yard on Norman Road in the Valley Truck Farms
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Denise Dixon at age 8 smiling for the camera with a gathering of adults sitting in the shade in the background in front of a house in Valley Truck Famrs
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Rosa Lee Watkins; Gail McDaniels, Althea McDaniels as toddlers photographed on Norman Road in December 1950
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Uncle Mitchell's (her grandfather's brother) Son RL McDowell. Across the street you can see Ola's house and the rural landscape on Norman Road in the background
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Betty McDowell in front of Norman Road house of Ola McDowell (Pollard house in the background, across the street)
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McDowell women posing on Norman Road at a celebration with white flowers. Pictured left to right Ola McDowell, Lena Henry, Alice Dixon, Lawrencia Mae Jones, Betty Jennings, Marjie McDowell, Lillie McDowell