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#1: Composite image of early photo of Dickson Flake and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Dickson Flake's maternal grandfather, Perry Simpson, with his maternal great-grandfather, Dr. Albert Ross Simpson
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#3: Dickson Flake's maternal grandmother, Marie Hvizdalek (Simpson) in her high school graduation portrait, 1906
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#4: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#5: Dickson Flake's grandparents, Marie and Perry Simpson, with their daughters: Marguerite (back, 2nd from left) and Louise; (front) Caroline and Winnie
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#6: Dickson Flake's mother, Marguerite Simpson Flake
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#7: Dickson Flake's mother, Marguerite Simpson Flake, 1935
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#8: Portrait of Dickson Flake as a baby
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#9: Portrait of Dickson Flake as a toddler
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#10: Dickson Flake as a young boy, 1945
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#11: Dickson Flake (left) with his brother, Gordon
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#12: Dickson Flake (left) with his brother, Gordon
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#13: Dickson Flake (left) with his brother, Gordon, October 1946
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#14: Dickson Flake's mother, Marguerite Flake
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#15: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#16: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#17: Dickson Flake (standing, right), with his brothers (clockwise from bottom right), Tommy, John, and Gordon
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#18: Dickson Flake (top right) with his family: (clockwise from bottom right) John, Marguerite, Tommy, and Gordon
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#19: Dickson Flake, left, with his brothers, Gordon, John, and Tommy, and their father, Leon
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#20: Dickson Flake
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#21: Dickson Flake's wife, Linda Clement Flake
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#22: Dickson Flake's wife, Linda Clement Flake
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#23: Dickson Flake's wife, Linda Clement Flake, age 20; Hot Springs, Arkansas
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#24: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#25: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#26: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#27: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#28: Dickson Flake's father, Leon Flake
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#29: Dickson Flake's brother, Tommy, 1973
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#30: Dickson Flake's mother, Marguerite Flake
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#31: Dickson Flake's brother, Gordon, with his family, Heather and Cristina Flake, 1980
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#32: Dickson Flake's brother, Tommy
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#33: Dickson Flake's mother, Marguerite Flake
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#34: Dickson Flake's wife, Linda Flake
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#35: Dickson and Linda Flake
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#36: Dickson Flake's granddaughter, Sarah Shellam, with 9-day-old foal, RC's Little Dipper; Easter 2001
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#37: Dickson Flake's granddaughter, Sarah Shellam
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#38: Dickson Flake's granddaughter, Sarah Shellam
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#39: Dickson Flake's daughter, Leslye Shellam
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#40: Dickson Flakes daughter, Leslye Shellam, with her husband, Ray
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#41: Dickson Flake's granddaughter, Sarah, with her father, Ray Shellam
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#42: Dickson Flake's daughter, Leslye Shellam
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#43: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Dickson Flake; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2010
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#44: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Dickson Flake; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2010
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