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    <unittitle>Copy of a photograph of Lylburn Downing High School class of 1961</unittitle>
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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" certainty="inferred" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1957/1957">1957</unitdate>
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<p>[Identification of item], Copy of a photograph of Lylburn Downing High School class of 1961, WLU Prints and Photographs #0160, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA</p>
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<p>A copy of an original photograph of students of the class of 1961 Lylburn Downing High School in Lexington, Virginia during their freshman year of 1957. Lylburn Downing School was an African - American school built in 1927. Student Amy Linette Tinsley is identified in the photograph.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <persname rules="aacr" source="local">Tinsley, Amy Linette, 1943</persname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Tinsley family</famname>
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