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        <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the L. Christine Bliss Seamans Papers <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="date" normal="1907/1970">1907-1970</date></titleproper>
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          Papers</titleproper>
        <author encodinganalog="creator">Kim Allen Scott, 2009</author>
        <sponsor encodinganalog="contributor">Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by
          a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities</sponsor>
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        <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Montana State University-Bozeman Library</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections</addressline>
          <addressline>P.O. Box 173320</addressline>
          <addressline>Bozeman, MT 59717-3320</addressline>
          <addressline>United States</addressline>
          <addressline>Phone (406) 994-4242</addressline>
          <addressline>Fax (406) 994-2851</addressline>
          <addressline>http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/</addressline>
          <addressline>University Archivist</addressline>
          <addressline>spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu</addressline>
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      <creation>Finding aid encoded by <emph render="italic"><emph render="underline">ArchProteus</emph></emph><date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2012">2012</date></creation>
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        <corpname encodinganalog="852$a">Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame
          Special Collections</corpname>
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          <addressline>P.O. Box 173320</addressline>
          <addressline>Bozeman, MT 59717-3320</addressline>
          <addressline>United States</addressline>
          <addressline>Phone (406) 994-4242</addressline>
          <addressline>Fax (406) 994-2851</addressline>
          <addressline>http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/</addressline>
          <addressline>University Archivist</addressline>
          <addressline>spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu</addressline>
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        <persname encodinganalog="100" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Seamans, L. Christine Bliss,
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        <extent encodinganalog="300$a">.2 linear feet and 1 reel audiotape</extent>
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      <abstract encodinganalog="5203_">The L. Christine Bliss Seamans Papers include a variety of
        source material she collected while working on a history of the Huntley Project. Included in
        the papers are letters Arthur E. Seamans wrote to his mother while working on a ranch near
        Forsyth between 1908 and 1909. Also found in the papers are Huntley Project directories from
        the mid 1960s, winning essays from the 1958 Pioneer Days Essay Contest, Homesteader Days
        booklet from 1964, a program from the Ballantine Roundup of 1916, and an article written by
        Reverend E. E. Pleasant about his time as minister at the Ballantine Congregational Church
        from 1909 to 1914. The bulk of the papers contain 74 pictures of Huntley Project pioneers,
        schools, and homesteads. The oral history statements compiled by Seamans were actually
        written essays prepared by her with the assistance of the subjects, and the audiotape
        consists of recordings made by the subjects as they read the prepared essays
        aloud.</abstract>
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      <head>Biographical Note</head>
      <p>L. Christine Bliss Seamans was born on January 3, 1902, in Rushville, Illinois to Charles
        W. and Della K. Thompson. She received her education at McMurray College and Northwestern
        University at Evanston, Illinois. After graduating, she moved to Worden, Montana, to teach
        high school. She married Herman Cook Bliss in June 1926. They had two sons, Charles H. and
        Herman C. Bliss. In December 1929, her husband was killed in an automobile accident.
        Christine remarried in 1955 to Arthur E. Seamans. Both her and Arthur spent most of their
        lives working at Huntley Project. Christine taught at Huntley Project High School and Arthur
        worked with the dryland farming division of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Christine
        became very active in recording the history of the Huntley Project and in 1968 located and
        interviewed ten pioneers of the project who homesteaded there between 1907 and 1914. In
        1994, she moved to Asheboro, North Carolina, to be near her son and grandchildren. She died
        there on January 13, 1997.</p>
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      <p>The L. Christine Bliss Seamans papers include a variety of source material she collected
        while working on a history of the Huntley Project. Included in the papers are five letters
        Arthur E. Seamans wrote to his mother while working on a ranch near Forsyth between 1908 and
        1909. The letters give information on the working and living conditions in an isolated
        ranching shack at the turn of the century. Also found in the papers are Huntley Project
        directories from the mid-1960s, winning essays from the 1958 Pioneer Days Essay Contest,
        Homesteader Days booklet from 1964, a program from the Ballantine Roundup of 1916, and an
        article written by Reverend E. E. Pleasant about his time as minister at the Ballantine
        Congregational Church from 1909 to 1914. He wrote the article in celebration of the 50th
        anniversary of the church. The bulk of the papers contain 74 pictures of Huntley Project
        pioneers, schools, and homesteads. The oral history statements compiled by Seamans were
        actually written essays prepared by her with the assistance of the subjects, and the
        audiotape consists of recordings made by the subjects as they read the prepared essays
        aloud. All of the essays are included with the collection and include statements read by
        Seamans, Wesley Barkmeyer, Josephene Windecker Fitzgerald, Alvin J. Bowman, Hugh Graham, J.
        Homer Hancock, Veclav Kratochvil, Agnes Kratochvil, Clinton C. Reed, Mary C. Smith, Reanna
        Bryson Stout, and Mae Waterman. Issues of the Huntley Journal (Huntley, Mont.), The
        Yellowstone (Ballantine, Mont.), The Gallatin Democrat (Bozeman, Mont.), and The Project
        Pioneer (Ballantine, Mont.) have been removed from the collection for item level description
        as serials and are cataloged separately. Also removed were issues of the Home Front News
        (Huntley, Mont.), a brief mimeograph serial issued during the early 1940s.</p>
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      <p>This collection is open for research.</p>
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      <p>L. Christine Bliss Seamans donated her papers to Special Collections in 1969 and 1982. This
        collection incorporates material previously accessioned as Collection 677.</p>
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      <p>This collection was processed 2009 February 16</p>
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        <persname encodinganalog="600" role="subject" source="lcnaf">Seamans, A. E. (Arthur
          Edgerton), 1889-1970-Correspondence</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Barkemeyer, Wesley,
          1886-1986</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Bowman, Alvin J.,
          1884-1972</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Fitzgerald, Josephine
          Windecker</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Graham, Hugh,
          1883-1973</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Hancock, J. Homer,
          1885-1969</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Kratochvil, Agnes,
          1893-1985</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Kratochvil, Vaclav,
          1888-1977</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Pleasant, E. E. (Ellis Eugene),
          1876-1970</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Reed, Clinton,
          1886-1970</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Smith, Mary C.,
          1885-1975</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Stout, Reanna,
          1881-1974</persname>
        <persname encodinganalog="700" role="creator" source="lcnaf">Waterman, Mae,
          1880-1975</persname>
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        <corpname encodinganalog="610" role="subject" source="lcnaf">Ballantine Congregational
          Church (Ballantine, Mont.)-History</corpname>
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          (U.S.)-History</corpname>
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        <geogname encodinganalog="651" role="subject" source="lcnaf">Ballantine (Mont.)-Church
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        <geogname encodinganalog="651" role="subject" source="lcnaf">Huntley
          (Mont.)-Biography</geogname>
        <geogname encodinganalog="651" role="subject" source="lcnaf">Huntley
          (Mont.)-History</geogname>
        <geogname encodinganalog="651" role="subject" source="lcnaf">Huntley
          (Mont.)-Photographs</geogname>
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        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcnaf">Congregational
          churches-Montana-Ballantine</subject>
        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcnaf">Farms-Montana-Yellowstone
          County-Photographs</subject>
        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcnaf">Irrigation projects-Montana-Yellowstone
          County-History</subject>
        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcnaf">Ranch life-Montana-Forsyth</subject>
        <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcnaf">Schools-Montana-Yellowstone
          County-Photographs</subject>
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        <genreform encodinganalog="655" source="aat">Audiotapes-Montana-Yellowstone
          County</genreform>
        <genreform encodinganalog="655" source="aat">Essays-Montana-Yellowstone County</genreform>
        <genreform encodinganalog="655" source="aat">Photographs-Montana-Yellowstone
          County</genreform>
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        <subject altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest">Elementary and
          Secondary Education</subject>
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        <subject altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest">Railroads</subject>
        <subject altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest">Ranching</subject>
        <subject altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest">Religion</subject>
        <subject altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest">Retail
          Trade</subject>
        <subject altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest">Water and Water
          Rights</subject>
        <subject altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest">Women</subject>
        <subject altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest">Montana</subject>
        <subject altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest">Photographs</subject>
        <subject altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest">Sound
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Arthur E. Seamans, Letters to his mother</unittitle>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Arthur E. Seamans, Letters to his mother</unittitle>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Pioneer Days Essay Contest List of Winners</unittitle>
          <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1958">1958</unitdate>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Pioneer Days Essay Winning Essays</unittitle>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">"Montana Days" by Reverend E. E. Pleasant</unittitle>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Pompey's Pillar Historic Point; "The West with Wool On"
            Ballantine Roundup</unittitle>
          <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="19160704">1916 July 4</unitdate>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Huntley Project Directory</unittitle>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Photographs, #1-10</unittitle>
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            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">T.P. Walter's Home, Huntley, MT</unittitle>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#2</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Homestead Shack</unittitle>
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            <p>Ernest Boschert, C. O. Stout, Robert Bryson, Jr., Dick Saunders, W. B. DeGrost, Asa
              Zimmerman, John Bush</p>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#3-4</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Boschert Store, Ballantine, MT</unittitle>
            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1908">1908</unitdate>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#5</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Boschert Store, Ballantine, MT</unittitle>
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            <p>Dick Saunders (kneeling), Asa Zimmerman (far right), Alfred McIntyre</p>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#6</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Boschert Store, Ballantine, MT. (Identified left to
              right) 2. Ernest Boschert, 3. C. O. Stout, 4. W. B. DeGroat, 8. Mr. Dodds</unittitle>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#7</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Boschert Store, Ballantine, MT. (Identified) 2. W. B.
              DeGroat (in doorway), Ernest Boschert, The Brent children (back of them seated), W.
              Brent (far right man with mustache), Hiram Stewart, Alec Kinmonth</unittitle>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#8</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Van Pelt's Grocery Store, Ballantine, MT</unittitle>
            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1920">1920</unitdate>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#9</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Ballantine before the fire</unittitle>
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            <p>La Seur Store, Van Pelt General Merchandise, Stern's General Merchandise</p>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#10</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">First railroad depot, Ballantine, MT</unittitle>
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            <p>Ernest Boschert</p>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Photographs, #11-19</unittitle>
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            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Ballantine Public School, Ballantine, MT</unittitle>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#12</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Main Street, Ballantine, MT. Al Boschert, Robert
              Bryson, Ernest Boschert</unittitle>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#13</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Ernest Boschert, first automobile an
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#14</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Ernest Boschert, first automobile. Mrs. Edana
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#15</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Ballantine, MT</unittitle>
            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1912">1912</unitdate>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#16</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Arrow Creek crossing the Main Canal, Ballantine, MT.
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#17</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Project Pioneer Picnic Committee</unittitle>
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            <p>Alvin J. Bowman, Keith Bartholomew, James E. Baltzell, George Bryson, Hugh Graham, I.
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#19</unitid>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#20</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Consolidation of the Elementary schools of the Huntley
              Project was accomplished at Worden in 1956. Front view of Consolidated Elementary
              Public School Building</unittitle>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#21</unitid>
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1956">1956</unitdate>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#22</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Huntley Project High School, Worden, MT</unittitle>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#23</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">View of Ballantine from the south</unittitle>
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              Dora Girls: James Stout, Frank Sindelar, Clyde Fleming, Don Axlund, Andy Martisak,
              Irvin Naaz (driver)</unittitle>
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1962">1962</unitdate>
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1969">1969</unitdate>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#49</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Mary C. Smith</unittitle>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#51</unitid>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#52</unitid>
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1969">1969</unitdate>
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            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Mae Waterman</unittitle>
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            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">J. Homer Hancock</unittitle>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#56</unitid>
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              homesteaders. Row 1: J. Homer Hancock, ReAnna Stout, Mae Waterman, Josephine Graham,
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#57</unitid>
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            <p>(Name changed to Huntley Project High School in 1926)</p>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#58</unitid>
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1923">1923</unitdate>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#61</unitid>
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1953">1953</unitdate>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#62</unitid>
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            <p>Photo by Herman C. Bliss</p>
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          <did>
            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#63</unitid>
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1954">1954</unitdate>
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            <p>Photo by Herman C. Bliss</p>
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          <did>
            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#64</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Aerial view of elementary schools, Pompey's
              Pillar</unittitle>
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            <p>Photo by Herman C. Bliss</p>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#65</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Aerial view of elementary schools, Worden,
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1953">1953</unitdate>
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          <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202_">
            <p>Photo by Herman C. Bliss</p>
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          <did>
            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#66</unitid>
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" certainty="approximate" normal="1954">circa 1954</unitdate>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#67</unitid>
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1954">1954</unitdate>
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          <did>
            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#68</unitid>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#69</unitid>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#70</unitid>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#71</unitid>
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              Bridge</unittitle>
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          <did>
            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#72</unitid>
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            <unitdate datechar="creation" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1954">1954</unitdate>
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            <unitid encodinganalog="099" type="item">#74</unitid>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Oral history essay, Bowman, Alvin J.; Fitzgerald,
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Oral history essay, Graham, Hugh; Hancock, Homer
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Oral history essay, Kratochvil, Veclav and Agnes; Reed,
            Clinton C.; Smith, Mary C.</unittitle>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Oral history essay, Stout, Reanna Bryson</unittitle>
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