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Overview

Title: Mildred Grossman papers
Call Number: Coll006
Creator: Grossman, Mildred, 1916-1988
Dates: 1929-1995
Size: 7 boxes (5 linear feet)
Language: English, Yiddish, Polish, German
Abstract: Collection contains photographs, professional and personal correspondence, diaries, daybooks, financial, medical, and legal documents, and extensive paperwork regarding Mildred Grossman's political activism, such as involvement with thes Teachers' Union of the City of New York and the New York Hotel Trades Council. Also contains evidence of her membership in the Photo League of NY and documentary photography endeavors. Other notable materials include legal papers and pamphlets written by her brother-in-law, Rafael Federman, and paperwork on a pension that her husband Mark Berkowitz, a Holocaust survivor, was receiving from Germany. Mildred Grossman’s professional photographs have been removed to the UMBC Photography Collection.
Citation: Mildred Grossman papers, Collection 6, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).

Administrative/Biographical Note

Mildred Grossman (1916-1988) was a New York City public school teacher, civil rights activist, unionist, and an award-winning photographer. She is well-known for her documentary photography, association with the Photo League, and involvement with many unions and activist organizations. She led 32 other teachers in a civil case against the New York City Public Schools after they were fired for accusations of being Communist sympathizers.

1916 Born in Brooklyn, NY
1933-1937 Earns a Bachelor of Business Administration, with a Teaching Certificate, from the College of Business and Accounting of the City College of New York (now known as Baruch College). At CCNY, is credited as student most responsible for securing readmission of women.
1937-? Works for Coty Cosmetics in Manhattan.
1939 Attends NYS Communist Party summer school.
1940 Begins teaching business accounting at Central Commercial High School in Manhattan. Active in the Teachers Union of NY.
Late 1940s - Joined the Photo League of NY, taking classes in documentary and street photography.
Late '40s-Early '50's Begins working as staff photographer for the Teacher News, the publication of the Teachers' Union.
1953 Named as a former Communist at HUAC hearing in NYCSuspended as teacher after refusing to answer part of the Superintendent's question concerning past and present membership in the CP.
1954 Dismissed as a teacher by the Board of Education of NYC
1955 Appeal of dismissal denied by the State Commissioner of EducationTwo photographs included the Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, NYCBegins working as a free-lance photographer, commencing a long-standing relationship with the Hotel Workers Local #5 in NYC
1957 Meets Dr. M. L. King, Jr. at the office of the Hotel Workers Local #5 in NYC
1958 Marries Motel "Mark" Berkowitz, a Holocaust survivor from Poland
1960 Winner in America's Many Faces, sponsored by the National Urban League
1965 Travels to Poland with Mark
1966 Wins a Polish competition with "Strike Rally"
1967 Feinberg Law considered unconstitutional by Supreme Court. Grossman leads a group of teachers seeking reinstatement
1968 Participates in Poor People's Campaign, contributes photos to The New Movement: Power for the Powerless (ed. Karen Kerpen)
1971 Working as free-lance photographer, social worker, teacher of photog
1972 Teachers sue Board of Education for reinstatement
1973 Teachers are reinstated, receive NYCLU Florina Lasker Civil Liberties Award from the NYC Human Rights Commission.
1974-1975 Substitute teaches at Central Commercial High School (now Norman Thomas High School)
1977 Heads tenant union in her building
1988 Dies of cancer

Scope & Content

Arrangement

This collection is divided into eight primary series: I. Union Activism, II. Notes and Correspondence, III. Financial, IV. Medical/Legal, V. Miscellaneous, VI. Diaries/Daybooks, VII. Personal Photographs, VIII. Ephemera.

Series I. Union Activism

  1. Teachers' Union: Correspondence, Case Files, Notes and "Press and Pressure"
  2. Hotel Union: Photos, drafts, outlines

Series II. Correspondence and Notes

  1. Correspondence
  2. Notes

Series III. Financial

  1. Receipts/Bills
  2. Check Registers
  3. Taxes
  4. German Pension Papers
  5. Insurance Papers
  6. Misc.

Series IV. Medical/Legal

  1. Passports, IDs
  2. Legal Papers
  3. Contracts
  4. Medical Papers
  5. Funeral Papers

Series V. Miscellaneous

  1. Address books
  2. Awards and Honors
  3. Clippings/Printed Materials
  4. Membership Cards/Postcards
  5. Exhibition Catalogs/Memorabilia
  6. Yearbooks
  7. Federman Papers

Series VI. Diaries and Daybooks

    Series VII. Personal Photographs

      Series VIII. Ephemera

        Note

        This collection contains the papers, photographs, books, and ephemera of Mildred Grossman Berkowitz. The documents span from her high school years in 1929 until seven years after her death, in 1995. The collection is divided into six series, based both on type of activity and kind of document. As a general rule, documents within series have been arranged in date order. The first series, Union Activism, is based on Mildred's activities with various unions. The bulk of this series is included in the first sub-series, "Teachers' Union," which includes details about Mildred's tireless efforts to reinstate thirty-three teachers that had been expelled from the New York City Public School system in the 1950s due to suspected Communist leanings. The transcript for Diana Wolman's (one of the teachers) HUAC hearing can be found (in html format) at http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/mccarthy/83869.txt. Because of the focus of the series on a particular activity, it includes various kinds of documents, such as correspondence, case files, clippings, and notes. From the beginning of her work on the case until 1974, when the teachers were finally reinstated, there is evidence of the close friendships that were built between the people working on the case.

        The second sub-series, "Hotel Union," contains photographs and documents relating to Mildred's work with the Hotel Trade Council for an exhibit called "Portrait of a Union." The papers include the history of the union until the exhibit, as well as goals and challenges that still needed to be met by the hotel workers. The photographs included in this series, which were originally included with the rest of the HTC papers, are of various workers in the hotel industry. More photographs of the workers are included in the photography section, but as these were specifically part of the HTC exhibit, they have been retained in the series. The second series is Notes and Correspondence. Mildred was a copious note taker, and kept a record of every meeting she attended (and as a member of the ASMP, the Teachers' Union, the Workman's Circle, and other numerous groups, there were many meetings that she attended throughout her life). Particularly prevalent in the notes is information regarding an exhibit depicting the history of the Hotel Trade Council called "Portrait of a Union." The actual drafts and photos are in the first series, mentioned above, but all of Mildred's handwritten notes on the subject are included here.

        This series includes the bulk of Mildred's correspondence aside from that dealing with the Teachers' Union case. It includes professional letters requesting photographs (for exhibits, publications, etc.), commissions for Mildred's photography skills (from the Hotel Trades Council and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union), various correspondence regarding employment (with Long Island University, Special Services of Queens, and the NY Public Schools), personal correspondence (of particular note is Wendell Phillips Dodge, noted explorer), and medical correspondence pertaining to both Mark and Mildred. A postcard from 1939 indicates Mildred's membership in the American Labor Party.

        The third series, Financial, includes all of Mildred's documents relating to her finances. As noted above, she was a very careful note-taker, and kept records for just about everything. Included in the series are receipts and bills for various objects or services that Mildred used, such as furniture, photography, and electricity, or that she provided, such as photographs. There are detailed records in Mildred's handwriting of various transactions throughout the years, as well as her notes regarding how much compensation she should receive from the state of New York as compensation for the loss of money while suspended from teaching. Two sub-series are particularly noteworthy. The first, "German Pension Papers," does not deal with Mildred directly, but rather her husband. Because Motel Berkowitz had been in a concentration camp during World War II, he was entitled to reparations from the German government. This series includes some legal papers (in Polish, German, and English), regarding the reparations, as well as documents proving Motel's eligibility for the pension plan, verifying his identity and history.

        The second sub-series, "Insurance Papers," consists of correspondence between Mildred, her lawyer Benjamin Zelman (who was also the lawyer on the Teachers' Union case), and Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. Mildred's insurance policy was for teachers only, and so the insurance company tried to verify that Mildred was actually teaching. Mildred, in her inimitable stubborn way, refused to answer the question, resulting in subsequent lawyer intervention and many letters from the insurance company. All of the correspondence in the sub-series is included in duplicate.

        The fourth series contains both medical and legal documents relating directly to Mildred or her family. Included in this series are numerous passports for Mildred and Motel, as well as Mildred's IDs for the NY Department of Social Services and The Cooper Union. Included with Mark's passports are international certificates of vaccination. In terms of legal documents, the contents are rather eclectic. Mildred's high school career is depicted here, with a diploma, a report card, and various awards she received while in school (from the Little Mothers' League, the Anti-Litter Bureau, the Arista League, Spanish class, the Service League, Honor Roll distinctions, and a scholarship certificate from The City College of New York). Various other legal documents include a certified copy of a birth certificate, various travel documents, immigration documents for Mildred's parents and husband, and a teaching certificate. Also included are a draft and an actual contract for Mildred's work with the Hotel and Club Employees Union Local 6.

        The medical documents in the collection relate to both Mildred and Motel, including a notification of Mildred's death from the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York. It also includes membership information in The Workman's Circle's insurance plan. Funeral papers seemed appropriate to include with medical papers, and so the series also includes information about the burial and perpetual for by Motel. Included as well is a series of drafts for a eulogy delivered at Mildred's funeral, and an envelope with Mildred's gravesite address that included pictures of his late wife. Series V includes a mix of documents that do not fit into one of the above series. Included is Mildred's yearbook, "The Lexicon," from the School of Business and Civil Administration of the College of the City of New York, a number of address books, various awards and honors received by Mildred Grossman, for photography, alcoholism recovery training, and the Teachers' Union case. (Mildred did receive a certificate from the National Urban League, which was not included in this series, as it was considered an attachment to a letter, and so was included with general correspondence. Also included are clippings and printed materials regarding Mildred's various projects, often including Mildred's photographs, regarding the Hotel Workers Union, The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, and the Teachers Union. Published materials that were retained with the collection, such as books regarding legalities of teachers and teaching in New York are included here. Other publications retained in the collection a magazine called "Friday" from January 1941, "There Are Men Inside: A presentation by Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union," and "Hotel and Club Voice" (November 1963), all of which contain images photographed by Mildred. Other miscellanea are various membership cards and photographic (unmailed) postcards belonging to Mildred Grossman, exhibition catalogs, a press release regarding an exhibit and some of Mildred's applications for various exhibitions. A final sub-series within the Miscellaneous is not at all connected with Mildred or her various projects. This sub-series contains extensive information on the Gizela and Rafael Federmans, Motel's sister and brother-in-law, who came to the United States after World War II. The sub-series contains miscellaneous photographs, various Yiddish publications by Rafael regarding the Jewish Labor Bund, immigration and death certificates, and a will for Rafael Federman, written in Yiddish.

        The sixth series, Diaries/Daybooks, quite possibly contains the materials for a researcher to see Mildred as she lived her daily life. This includes Mildred's planners, daybooks, and diaries, spanning about forty years of her life. The earliest book included here is a diary from 1950 recording one of her trips abroad with fascinating details of some of the people that she met. Eleven daybooks, from 1959-1969, list Mildred's day-to-day events and appointments. Papers that had been inserted into the daybooks were sometimes kept and sometimes removed to other folders, depending on appropriateness. Some, such as photo lists, miscellaneous notes, Peanuts comic strip clippings (1964, 1966), and a list of birthdays and anniversaries (1966) have been left in the books for context. Correspondence, ID cards, and receipts, however, have been removed to their respective folders. The back of the daybooks include a "cash account" section, which Mildred used to list monthly transactions. The four daily planners (1976-1977, 1979, 1981) include similar information as the daybooks, albeit in less detail.

        The seventh series contains Mildred Grossman's personal photos, including six photo albums as well as loose photographs. This series also includes photographs taken by photographers other than Mildred (generally personal photos). Her professional photos have been removed to the UMBC photography collection. The eighth series contains items of ephemera: Six stamps belonging to Mildred that were used for labeling her photographs, and her Leica "flash unit" in a box.

        Provenance Information

        Provenance and Acquisition Information

        PHMS 2002-23, 2003-01; This collection was donated by Mark Berkowitz, and arrived in two accessions. The first, consisting of Mildred's photos, included two loose-leaf binders contained 120 photographs, as well as silver prints and negatives. This came from the house of Mark Berkowitz on 12/15/89. The second accession came from Minerva Contreras on 12/17/02, and included the Mildred Grossman Archive, as well as a total of 5810 items in a combination of photographs and negatives.

        Related Collections

        Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union, Local 6 Photographs; PHOTOS 098; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.Farmers Union Central Exchange Records. Minnesota Historical Society. Contains photographs by Mildred Grossman.

        Processing Note

        The collection was processed by Michelle Margolis under the supervision of Marcia Frank Peri and completed in May 2006. The collection arrived in a generally good condition, in regular boxes, for both accessions. The contents were wrapped in brown paper in the first accession.

        For the sake of preservation, acid-damaged papers were copied onto acid-free paper, and the original papers were retained. There were four folders in the collection that had been labeled by Mildred, but only one ("Press and Pressure") was retained with the original title, as the other folders did not seem to have any unifying factors, nor were the titles appropriate to the contents. Of the remaining folders, "Currin" was renamed "Insurance Papers," and "My Mistakes" and "Book Prints" were included with the Hotel Union Papers. Staples and paper clips were removed from the documents, and envelopes were generally discarded (except in one case, where the decoration, hand-drawn on the actual envelope was quite unique) unless it was needed for identification of a date of correspondence. One envelope, left unopened when the collection was received, has remained unopened. In the case of multiple copies of any documents, only two were retained.

        A number of books not directly related to Mildred or the collection have been removed from the collection, to be placed in stacks. A list of those books follows the processing notes. Although there is a folder for Awards and Honors, the certificate from the National Urban League has been included in the Correspondence and Notes, as it is actually an enclosure to a letter. The professional photographs and negatives included in the collection have been removed to the UMBC Photography collection, and are unprocessed as of May 23, 2006. Due to the relatively small size of the collection, the correspondence and other dated documents have been arranged in simple date order.

        Descriptive Rules Used

        Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS)

        Archives Processing Manual: Description (2015): The processing manual used in Special Collections for all descriptive platforms, including PastPerfect.

        Access & Use

        Finding Aids

        Finding aid available.

        Finding Aid: http://library.umbc.edu/speccoll/findingaids/coll006.php

        Access Conditions

        No restrictions.

        Conditions Governing Reproductions and Use

        Reproductions allowed for research purposes. Copyright maintained by the creator.

        Subject Headings

        Creators

        Grossman, Mildred, 1916-1988

        Federman, Rafael

        Berkowitz, Motel

        Subjects

        Grossman, Mildred, 1916-1988 -- Archives

        Teachers' Union of the City of New York

        New York Hotel Trades Council

        Photo League

        Documentary photography

        Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York

        Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Reparations

        Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York

        Series Description & Container List

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        1. Series I. Union Activism

          Date: 1959-1974; bulk 1959, 1967-1974

          Extent: 9 folders (375 items)

          Description: Mildred's correspondence, notes, case files, and newspaper clippings from the Teachers' Union trial from 1967-1974, as well as outlines, drafts, and photos, for an exhibit for the Hotel Trades Council's exhibit: "Portrait of a Union" in 1959, have been divided into two sub-series, Teachers' Union and Hotel Union.

          1. Subseries I.A. Teachers' Union

            Date: 1967-1974; bulk 1973-1974

            Extent: 8 folders (330 items)

            Description: This sub-series includes correspondence, case files, and newspaper articles, in order by type of document, then date order, as well as Mildred's notes pertaining to the Teachers' Union case.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Teachers' Union: Correspondence (Undated; 1967-1969) 1 1
              Teachers' Union: Correspondence (1970-1972) 1 2
              Teachers' Union: Correspondence (1973) 1 3
              Teachers' Union: Correspondence (1974) 1 4
              Teachers' Union: Case Files (April 1967-July 1972) 1 5
              Teachers' Union: Case Files (Sept. 1972-October 1974) 1 6
              Teachers' Union: Notes 2 1
              Teachers' Union: "Press and Pressure" 2 2

          2. Subseries I.B. Hotel Union

            Date: 1959

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This sub-series contains outlines, drafts, and photographs relating to an exhibit for the Hotel Trades Council's exhibit: "Portrait of a Union."

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Hotel Union: Photos, drafts, outlines 2 3

        2. Series II. Correspondence and Notes

          Date: 1939-1992; bulk 1957-1972

          Extent: 3 folders (125 items)

          Description: This series contains all of Mildred's correspondence and notes not related to the Teachers' Union case. It is divided into two sub-series: Correspondence and Notes

          1. Subseries II.A. Correspondence

            Date: 1939-1992; bulk 1957-1972

            Extent: 2 folders

            Description: This sub-series contains all of Mildred's correspondence not relating to the Teacher's Union case. It is arranged in date order

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Correspondence (Undated; 1939-1969) 2 4
              Correspondence (1970-1992) 2 5

          2. Subseries II.B. Notes

            Date: undated

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This sub-series includes all of Mildred's notes not relating to the Teachers' Union case.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Notes 2 6

        3. Series III. Financial

          Date: 1954-1995

          Extent: 6 folders (125 items)

          Description: This series includes all of Mildred's financial documents. It is divided into six series: Receipts/Bills, Check Registers, Taxes, German Pension Papers, Insurance Papers, and Financial Miscellaneous.

          1. Subseries III.A. Receipts/Bills

            Date: 1954-1987; bulk 1965-1966, 1973-1979

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This sub-series includes receipts and bills. They are arranged in date order.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Receipts/Bills 3 1

          2. Subseries III.B. Check Registers

            Date: 1982-1988

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This series includes the check registers from the end of Mildred's life. They are placed in rough date order.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Check Registers 3 2

          3. Subseries III.C. Taxes

            Date: 1954-1988; bulk 1954-1955, 1973-1975, 1986-1988

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This series includes Mildred's tax forms and tax information. It is arranged in date order.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Taxes 3 3

          4. Subseries III.D. German Pension Papers

            Date: 1949-1995; bulk 1949-1960

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This series is arranged in date order.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              German Pension Papers 3 4

          5. Subseries III.E. Insurance Papers

            Date: 1969-1970

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: The series is arranged in date order

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Insurance Papers 3 5

          6. Subseries III.F. Miscellaneous

            Date: undated

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This series contains miscellaneous documents relating to Mildred's finances. Included is information about her rent, teacher retirement, and a handwritten list of bank accounts and their contents.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Miscellaneous 3 6

        4. Series IV. Medical/Legal

          Date: 1929-1991

          Extent: 5 folders (100 items)

          Description: This series contains all of Mildred Grossman's legal papers and items not related to the Teachers' Union case, as well as medical and funeral papers. It is divided into five sub-series: Passports/IDs, Legal Papers, Contracts, Medical Papers, and Funeral Papers.

          1. Subseries IV.A. Passports, IDs

            Date: 1940-1995

            Extent: 1 folders

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Passports, IDs 3 7

          2. Subseries IV.B. Legal Papers

            Date: 1929-1988; bulk 1929-1950, 1974

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This sub-series includes all kinds of legal documents and related materials for Mildred Grossman. They have been arranged in date order.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Legal Papers 3 8

          3. Subseries IV.C. Contracts

            Date: 1959

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This sub-series contains a draft and an actual contract for Mildred's work with the Hotel and Club Employees Union Local 6.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Contracts 3 9

          4. Subseries IV.D. Medical Papers

            Date: 1954-1988

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This sub-series is arranged in date order.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Medical Papers 3 10

          5. Subseries IV.E. Funeral Papers

            Date: 1977-1991; bulk 1978-1980, 1988

            Extent: 1 folders

            Description: This sub-series is arranged in date order.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Funeral Papers 3 11

        5. Series V. Miscellaneous

          Date: 1937-1983; bulk 1953-1974

          Extent: 10 folders (150 items)

          Description: This series includes all of Mildred's miscellaneous documents and objects. The series was divided into seven sub-series: Yearbooks, Address Books, Awards and Honors, Clippings/Printed Materials, Membership Cards/Postcards, Exhibition Catalogs/Memorabilia, and Federman Papers

          1. Subseries V.A. Yearbooks

            Date: 1937

            Extent: 1 folders

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Yearbooks 3 12

          2. Subseries V.B. Address Books

            Date: undated

            Extent: 2 folders

            Description: This sub-series contains various kinds of address books and lists of addresses.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Address Books 4 1
              Address Books 4 2

          3. Subseries V.C. Awards and Honors

            Date: 1962-1973; bulk 1962, 1971, 1973

            Extent: 1 folders

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Awards and Honors 4 3

          4. Subseries V.D. Clippings/Printed Materials

            Date: 1953-1974, undated

            Extent: 3 folders

            Description: This series has been arranged in rough date order.

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Clippings 4 4
              Printed Materials 4 5
              Printed Materials 4 6

          5. Subseries V.E. Membership Cards/Postcards

            Date: undated

            Extent: 1 folders

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Membership Cards/Postcards 4 7

          6. Subseries V.F. Exhibition Catalogs/Memorabilia

            Date: 1954-1965

            Extent: 1 folders

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Exhibition Catalogs/Memorabilia 4 8

          7. Subseries V.G. Federman Papers

            Date: 1939-1983; bulk 1940-1972

            Extent: 1 folders

            1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
              Federman Papers 4 9

        6. Series VI. Dairies and Daybooks

          Date: 1950-1981

          Extent: 16 items

          1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
            Diaries and Daybooks 5

        7. Series VII. Personal Photographs

          Extent: 275 items

          1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
            Personal Photographs 6

        8. Series VIII. Ephemera

          Extent: 7 items

          1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
            Ephemera 8

        9. Series IX: Photographs

          Date: undated

          Description: This series contains photos that have have item-level records.

          1. Folder Title/Description Date Box # Folder # Additional Info.
            H391 - 3937 undated 8 1 Description
            H394 - 397 undated 8 2 Description
            H398 - 400 undated 8 3 Description
            H401 - 422 undated 8 4 Description
            H351 - 353 undated 8 5 Description
            H354 - 359 undated 8 6 Description
            H360 - 374 undated 8 7 Description
            H423 - 427 undated 8 8 Description
            H428 - 433 undated 8 9 Description
            H434 - 437 undated 8 10 Description
            H375 - 378 undated 9 1 Description
            H379 - 385 undated 9 2 Description
            H386 - 390 undated 9 3 Description
            5351 - 5374 undated 9 4 Description
            G undated 9 5 Description
            5301 - 5325 undated 9 6 Description
            52 E 18 undated 9 7 Description
            5226 - 5251 undated 9 8 Description
            M26 - M50 undated 9 9 Description
            M1 - M25 undated 9 10 Description
            51 - 25 undated 10 1 Description
            F1 - F25 undated 10 2 Description
            5201 - 5225 undated 10 3 Description
            1950E undated 10 4 Description
            5326 - 5350 undated 10 5 Description
            5101 - 5132 undated 10 6 Description
            4911 undated 10 7 Description
            4910 undated 10 8 Description
            4908 undated 10 9 Description
            4903 undated 10 10 Description
            4901 undated 10 11 Description
            4902 undated 10 12 Description
            Unlabeled, rectangular undated 11 1 Description
            Unlabeled, rectangular, polaroid style undated 11 2 Description
            Unlabled, rectabgular undated 11 3 Description
            Prayer Pilgramage 1957 undated 11 4 Description
            H29 - 39 undated 11 5 Description
            H6 - 10 undated 11 6 Description
            H60 - 65 undated 11 7 Description
            66 - 95 undated 11 8 Description
            H18 - 19 undated 11 9 Description
            H35 - 37 undated 11 10 Description
            H22 - 23 undated 11 11 Description
            H24 - 26 undated 12 1 Description
            H38 - 40 undated 12 2 Description
            H48 - 59 undated 12 3 Description
            H27 - 28 undated 12 4 Description
            H171 - 205 undated 12 5 Description
            H1 - 5 undated 12 6 Description
            H15 - 17 undated 12 7 Description
            H11 - H14? undated 12 8 Description
            H121 - 153 undated 12 9 Description
            H151 - 164 undated 12 10 Description
            H165 - 170 undated 12 11 Description
            H171-2-1 - H188-4-5 undated 13 12 Description
            H171-3-3 - H177-2-5 undated 13 13 Description
            undated 13 14 Description
            H26-40, H3-1 undated 13 15 Description
            H88 - H112 undated 13 16 Description
            H90 - H155 undated 13 17 Description
            H-198 - 200 undated 13 18 Description
            206 - 214 undated 13 19 Description
            207 - 208 undated 13 20 Description
            209 - 214 undated 13 21 Description
            H215-3 - 217-4 undated 13 22 Description
            H215-3 - 223-33 undated 13 23 Description
            H224-226 undated 13 24 Description
            H257 - 260-17a undated 13 25 Description
            260-18 - 262-7a undated 13 26 Description
            5774 - 5776 undated 13 27 Description
            undated 13 28 Description
            H238 - 240 undated 14 1 Description
            H241 - 257 undated 14 2 Description
            H227 - 237 undated 14 3 Description
            H263 - 271 undated 14 4 Description
            H226 - 283 undated 14 5 Description
            55L14-13 - 55L9-20 undated 14 6 Description
            5507-33 - 5507-39 undated 14 7 Description
            Friends undated 14 8 Description
            603 7-1 - 603 6-5 undated 15 1 Description
            262, 298 - 300 undated 15 2 Description
            278 - 284 undated 15 3 Description
            H49-18 - H166-50 undated 15 4 Description
            312-36 - 310-6 undated 15 5 Description
            H504 - 305 undated 15 6 Description
            H348 - 350 undated 15 7 Description
            H314 - 321 undated 15 8 Description
            H284 - 301 undated 16 9 Description
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            H345 - 347 undated 16 11 Description
            H340 - 343 undated 16 12 Description
            H333 - 336 undated 16 13 Description
            H324 - 329 undated 16 14 Description
            H330 - 332 undated 16 15 Description
            H101 - 121 undated 17 1 Description
            H126 - 150 undated 17 2 Description
            H151 - 175 undated 17 3 Description
            H176 - 200 undated 17 4 Description
            H1 5358 - H25 undated 17 5 Description
            H25 - 50 undated 17 6 Description
            H51 - 75 undated 17 7 Description
            H76 - 100 undated 17 8 Description
            H276 - 300 undated 17 9 Description
            H301 - 325 undated 18 1 Description
            6226 - 6240 undated 18 2 Description
            6301 - 6325 undated 18 3 Description
            6321 - 6350 undated 18 4 Description
            6401 - 6425 undated 18 5 Description
            6509E - E6532 undated 18 6 Description
            6601E - 6712E undated 18 7 Description
            6801 - 6836 undated 18 8 Description
            6901 - 6908 undated 18 9 Description
            Prints undated 18 10 Description
            H201 - 225 undated 18 11 Description
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