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This selection of photographs from Mss 100, the Strom Thurmond Collection, documents Senator Thurmond's life from 1903 to 1987, with particular emphasis on his early life and career. They are arranged chronologically, with the earliest photographs first.

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	James Strom Thurmond at six months. 1903. [TBP 01]
	Thurmond home in Edgefield, SC. Early 1900's. [TBP 02]
	Clemson College Varsity Track Team; junior year Cadet Thurmond is first on the left in the second row. 1921-1922. [TBP 04]
	Cadet Thurmond as a senior at Clemson College. Fall 1922. [TBP 05]
	Cadet Thurmond's senior class picture, Clemson College. Fall 1922. [TBP 06]
	Cadet Thurmond as president of the Calhoun Literary Society at Clemson College (first row, second from left). 1922-1923. [TBP 07]
	State Senator Thurmond of Edgefield County. 1935. [TBP 12]
	First Lieutenant Thurmond in the South Carolina Defense Force while serving as Circuit Court Judge. c.1938. [TBP 16]
	Eleventh Circuit Court Judge Thurmond. 1939. [TBP 15]
	Lieutenant Colonel Thurmond at Governor's Island, NY. September 1943. [TBP 17]
	Colonel Thurmond drives a captured German vehicle near St. Mere Eglise in Normandy, France not long after D-Day. June 10, 1944. [TBP 19D]
	Governor-elect Thurmond smiles after winning election. September 3, 1947. [TBP 20]
	James F. Byrnes congratulates Governor Thurmond at his inauguration. January 21, 1947. [TBP 23]
	Wedding of Governor Thurmond and Jean Crouch. November 7, 1947. [TBP 25]
	Governor Thurmond in his office at the Governor's Mansion. 1948. [TBP 33]
	Captain David in Camden, SC on his trip to the West during Governor Thurmond's campaign for President of the United States. 1948. [TBP 36]
	Presidential candidate Governor Thurmond (right) greets Beverly Howard as South Carolina Congressman L. Mendel Rivers and his wife exit the airplane. November 2, 1948. [TBP 34]
	Thurmond (right) votes with, left to right, his sister, Miss Gertrude Thurmond; his mother, Mrs. J. W. Thurmond; and his wife, Jean Crouch Thurmond, in the 1948 Presidential election. November 2, 1948. [TBP 35]
	Strom Thurmond in his law office, Aiken, SC. 1951. [TBP 39]
	Colonel Thurmond arrives at Fort Dix, NJ. September 1, 1954. [TBP 46A]
	President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a statement on National Defense Week to Colonel Thurmond, National President of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States; at right is Major M. H. Manchester, editor of the Reserve Officer magazine. January 12, 1955. [TBP 49]
	Senator Thurmond preparing the first draft of the "Southern Manifesto" repudiating the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision, assisted by his wife, Jean Crouch Thurmond. February 1956. [TBP 50]
	Senator and Mrs. Thurmond enjoy horseback riding in Aiken, SC. October 18, 1958. [TBP 42]
	Senator Thurmond is sworn in as a Major General in the U. S. Army Reserve at the Pentagon by Major General R. V. Lee, U.S. Army Adjutant General, as Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Bruckner looks on. April 25, 1960. [TBP 56]
	Senator Thurmond with Richard Nixon during Nixon's presidential campaign. 1968. [TBP 59]
	Senator Thurmond is sworn into office by Vice President Walter Mondale while his family looks on. January 15, 1979. [TBP 60]
	President Ronald Reagan greets Senator Thurmond at the White House. June 3, 1981. [TBP 61]
	Senator Thurmond with wife Nancy Moore Thurmond and his children Paul, Julie, Nancy Moore and Strom II. October 1987. [TBP 67]