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Ethnography
 1965: Raising animals. |  20th century: Pig slaughter has always been occasion for families and neighbours to socialise. |  20th century: Pig slaughter has always been occasion for families and neighbours to socialise. |
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 20th Century: Hanging up the laundry. |  20th century: Procession. |  20th century: Wedding. |
 20th century: Making linen from flax. |  20th century: Procession. |  20th century: Azorean dairy farm. |
 Raising animals for feed. |  1965: Picking corn. |  1968: Azorean carnival. |
 1965: Selling fish on a traditional motorbike. |  1965: Peanut production. |  1966: Educator VirgÃlia with their primary school students. |
 1966: Illiteracy rate was high. On the photo an old lady reading a book. |  1966: Educator Arménia Maria e Silva with their primary school students. |  The 60's: Lady Mercês with her grandson Laudalino. |
 60's A very hard life. |  1968: Table tennis championship, animated by a Local Singing Group. |  1965: The famous renault, used by nurses in their visits to medical clinics. |
 Celebrating. Wine, beer, crag and boiled potatoes with pepper, as tradition dictates. |  1965: Dried beans hanging on the inside roof. |  60's: Traditional pig slaughter, event that joined the whole family, friends and neighborhood. With it, inhabitants were able to feed themselves. |
 1966: Azorean barbershop: also known as a place for socialising and debate. |  1966: Selling bread. |  Corn husking |
 Mothers gave birth at home, being assisted by older talented women, who also provided lessons about maternity. |  Shoemaker: a job threatened with extinction. |  Making bread in a wood oven is a practice that has remained alive through the time. |
 Making bread in a wood oven is a practice that has remained alive through the time. |  Making bread in a wood oven is a practice that has remained alive through the time. |  Doing laundry. |
 Doing laundry. |  XX century: Farmworker from São Miguel island. |  XX century: Peasants from São Miguel island. |
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