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Solution to the February 1999 Puzzle

Altered Image

  1. We replaced Abraham Lincoln with Fredrick Douglas.
  2. We replaced what was possibly a portrait of Daniel Webster with Booker T. Washington.
  3. Heart graffiti was added to the blackboard.
  4. "Anton '02" was "carved" into the front bench.
  5. Far right face is that of W.E.B. DuBois.
  6. Center circled face is that of Ida B. Wells.
  7. Figure circled on left is from a Helen Levitt photograph c.1945 of an anonymous boy smoking.

Original Image

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