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Photograph of a man and women in embrace with a gold background

Percentage of Native Americans saying they have ever personally experienced discrimination in each situation because they are Native

A suffrage poem written by O.R. Washburn of Elkton, Maryland in Cecil County.

Lt. Ernest Childers, a Creek, being congratulated by Gen. Jacob L. Devers after receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor in Italy for wiping out two machine gun nests

Muskrat season opens the first of January. This trapper, Stanley Bennett of Mardela, works the marsh of the Nanticoke River. Trapping muskrats is dangerous business - it is easy to step in an unseen hole. Despite this hazard, most trappers work…

A study in early summer on the back road from Salisbury to Delmar.

Robert Charles “Biggie” Long, a prominent citizen from Princess Anne in Somerset County, active in Maryland politics, had a cannery at Westover. He processed large acreages of tomatoes every year. Here he examines the latest crop and strikes a deal…

Photograph of female farmer with goat.

Photograph of clam farmers. Chincoteague watermen have a developed maricultural and can harvest clams on order. The smallest specimens are sold for eating on the half-shell, the middle-sized for restaurant chowder. The largest go into manufactured…

Here are Claude Marvel and Skid in the same plywood boat. Claude is holding up a 40-pound rock. This whopper had to be thrown back by law, but Claude sure was tickled to catch it.