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#1: Composite image of early photo of Edmond Freeman and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Newman/Freeman family home, built at 1220 Main Street, Pine Bluff, in 1911 by Major C. G. Newman, the founder of the Pine Bluff Commercial; destroyed by fire in the 1960s
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![Edmond Freeman as a baby being held by great-grandmother, Marianna Coleman Newman, with sister, Evelyn Freeman, and cousin, Joyce Freeman © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//009-FREEMAN-Edmond-Baby-Great-Grandmother-1926.jpg)
#3: Edmond Freeman as a baby being held by great-grandmother, Marianna Coleman Newman, with sister, Evelyn Freeman, and cousin, Joyce Freeman
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![Edmond Freeman (bottom left) building a pyramid with his boys' gymnastic club; Pine Bluff, Arkansas, ca. 1940 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//016-FREEMAN-Edmond-Boyhood-Gymnastics-Late-1930s.jpg)
#4: Edmond Freeman (bottom left) building a pyramid with his boys' gymnastic club; Pine Bluff, Arkansas, ca. 1940
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![Edmond Freeman, Citadel class photo, ca. 1943 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//017-FREEMAN-Edmond-Citadel-Class-Photo.jpg)
#5: Edmond Freeman, Citadel class photo, ca. 1943
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#6: Edmond Freeman, Citadel class photo, ca. 1943
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#7: Edmond Freeman (2nd from right) with US Naval Academy gymnastics team; Annapolis, Maryland, ca. 1947
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#8: Edmond Freeman doing flips as part of the US Naval Academy gymnastics team; Annapolis, Maryland, ca. 1945
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#9: Edmond Freeman, US Naval Academy graduation photo, class of 1948-A
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![Edmond Freeman, US Naval Academy gymnastics certificate, 1945 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//024-FREEMAN-Edmond-USNA-Certificate-Gymnastics-1945.jpg)
#10: Edmond Freeman, US Naval Academy gymnastics certificate, 1945
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#11: Edmond Freeman's father, Edmond Wroe Freeman Jr., 1897–1984
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![Lt. Edmond Freeman (center) at Red Cross collections booth in the mess hall of USS Gilbert Islands, April 16, 1952 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//027-FREEMAN-Edmond-USS-Gilbert-Islands-Red-Cross-Collections-1952.jpg)
#12: Lt. Edmond Freeman (center) at Red Cross collections booth in the mess hall of USS Gilbert Islands, April 16, 1952
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#13: Edmond Freeman's ship, USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116)
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![June and Edmond Freeman, newlyweds portrait; Chicago, Illinois, 1950 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//030-FREEMAN-Edmond-June-Newlyweds-1952.jpg)
#14: June and Edmond Freeman, newlyweds portrait; Chicago, Illinois, 1950
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![Edmond Freeman (top right) and June Freeman (seated 2nd from right) at Freeman family picnic, 1956 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//032-FREEMAN-Edmond-June-Summer-Picnic-1956.jpg)
#15: Edmond Freeman (top right) and June Freeman (seated 2nd from right) at Freeman family picnic, 1956
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![June and Edmond Freeman fishing with family off the coast of Panama City, June 1964 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//038-FREEMAN-Edmond-June-Sail-Fish-Family-1964.jpg)
#16: June and Edmond Freeman fishing with family off the coast of Panama City, June 1964
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#17: Edmond Freeman working at the Pine Bluff Commercial, early 1950s
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![Edmond Freeman and his son, Andy, canoeing the Buffalo National River, late 1960s © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//042-FREEMAN-Edmond-Andy-Canoeing-Late-1960s.jpg)
#18: Edmond Freeman and his son, Andy, canoeing the Buffalo National River, late 1960s
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![Edmond Freeman at his desk at the Pine Bluff Commercial, early 1980s © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//043-FREEMAN-Edmond-Office.jpg)
#19: Edmond Freeman at his desk at the Pine Bluff Commercial, early 1980s
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#20: Newspaper clipping about the Pine Bluff Commercial's Centennial symposium, from left: Louis Ramsay, Joe Stroud, Pat Owens, September 1981
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#21: Sam Papert and Paul Greenberg on the panel of the Pine Bluff Commercial's Centennial symposium, 1981
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#22: Pat Owens on the panel of the Pine Bluff Commercial's Centennial symposium, 1981
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#23: Tom Parsons on the panel of the Pine Bluff Commercial's Centennial symposium, 1981
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#24: Louis Ramsay, Joe Stroud, and Pat Owens on the panel of the Pine Bluff Commercial's Centennial symposium, 1981
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#25: The Pine Bluff Commercial's Centennial symposium, 1981
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![Edmond Freeman with his pre-Columbian art collection © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//065-FREEMAN-Edmond-Art.jpg)
#26: Edmond Freeman with his pre-Columbian art collection
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![Edmond Freeman (far left) and June Freeman (4th from right) with the Freeman family at Mt. Whitney © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//067-FREEMAN-Edmond-Family-Mt-Whitney.jpg)
#27: Edmond Freeman (far left) and June Freeman (4th from right) with the Freeman family at Mt. Whitney
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![Edmond and June Freeman descending Mt. Whitney © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas](makeThumbcustom.php?width=550&height=310&img=projects/Arkansas Memories/FREEMAN-Edmond/slideshow//068-FREEMAN-Edmond-June-Mt-Whitney.jpg)
#28: Edmond and June Freeman descending Mt. Whitney
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#29: June and Edmond Freeman climbing Mt. Fuji, October 2005
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#30: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Edmond Freeman; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2009
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#31: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Edmond Freeman; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2009
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#32: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Edmond Freeman; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2009
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