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Boyd Jones doing his arithmetic lesson at the blackboard in the Alexander

Community School in Greene County, Georgia. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-

OWI, 1935-1945, Library of Congress’ American Memory Collection.

Why do we learn to count?

[Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, holding up his hands as if counting on his fingers]. Part of Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 in the Library of Congress’ American Memory Collection.

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Bibliographic Information

1. Mary Elizabeth "Mitzi" Rhoads on a speed Flivver / photo by Harry M. Rhoads. American Memory’s History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library collection. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+00185374))

2. Buses American Memory’s The South Texas Border: The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/runyon:@field(DOCID+@lit(txuruny.02807))

3. A canoe trip through the Everglades, ca. 1910. American Memory’s Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fmuever:@field(NUMBER+@band(fmuever+vm00010013))

4. Donkeys American Memory’s History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+00115609))

5. Little boys / photograph by Ansel Adams. American Memory’s Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/manz:@field(NUMBER+@band(ppprs+00164))

6. [Six members of the Goose Island Fire Department standing on and in front of a horse drawn fire department wagon]. American Memory’s Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+n004639))

7. [Seven young women wearing bathing suits, dancing on the shore of a beach during a Y. M. C. A. outing]. American Memory’s Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+n083833))

8. The landing of Columbus at San Salvador, October 12, 1492, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c05062))+@field(COLLID+pga))

9. Potomac Boat Club. American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/awhbib:@field(NUMBER+@od1(cph+3b38705))

10. Pumpkins near Berlin, Connecticut. American Memory’s America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 , http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8a27273))

A. Butterfly applique quilt made by Mrs. Bill Stagg, homesteader from Texas and Oklahoma. Pie Town, New Mexico. American Memory’s America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8b25288))

B. [Twenty-two policemen forming a human pyramid on the backs of nine running horses]. American Memory’s Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+n077580))