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This is a photo of Leonard Coalter's wagon which he drove to the Grand Rapids Wholesale Market to sell peaches. The acetylene spotlight on the front of the wagon was mentioned in a newspaper article on September 19, 1913.

USDA Bulletin giving instructions on school gardens.

Obituary of Solomon Wright

Wagons are delivering bushels of peaches to train cars. The cars are on either side of the wagons in a railyard sunken below street level. Nothing on the back.

Promotional Postcard from the Kellogg's factory showing women on the packing line for Corn Flakes.

Empty seed packet for sweet peas from Grand Rapids MI company Alfred J. Brown Seed Company.

Eighteen young black men are in front of a building with distinctive pillars with vines chiseled into them. A small niche is to their left. A power line is to their right. They are all dressed in suits, holding their hats, and have a ribbon pinned to…

Fifteen children in robes, six in mortarboards stand outside a clapboard structure with an A.M.E Church plaque behind them. There is a very distinctive three-story in the background. Nothing is on the back.

This is a photo in front of a house with a large Catalpa tree. There appear to be four men, two of who may be the partners of two of the three women. Two girls are also in the picture. The backside has names, of which Ophelia Fields is the most…

Two men in an open garage doorway of a clapboard building with "St. Joseph Auto" across the top trim board. Nothing on the backside.