Memphis, Tennessee - Historic photos, documents, and people

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Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season. Truck drivers are paid by the planters and serve as "runners" to recruit the men. Trucks leave at five o'clock in

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. At travelers' aid desk in the bus terminal at Memphis, Tennessee. Servicemen ask for help in finding rooms, qui

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. At travelers' aid desk in the bus terminal at Memphis, Tennessee. Servicemen ask for help in finding rooms, qui

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. Sixteen year-old baggage clerk at the Memphis bus station. He goes to school in the daytime and works from four

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. Sixteen year-old baggage clerk at the Memphis bus station. He goes to school in the daytime and works from four

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James K Bradley, Sr. and Jr. James Sr was a City of Memphis Fireman, my Grandmother had my Dad a dress uniform made to match his Dad. On the front porch of their home at 694 Hillcrest St

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. M.P. (Military Police) on duty at the bus station at Memphis, Tennessee

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. Passengers waiting for the bus at the Memphis terminal

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Colored laborers in Memphis, waiting at daylight in hopes of being transported to a cotton plantation for cotton chopping. Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee Historic photos, documents, and people