Date: | 05 09 1917 |
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Description: | Mrs. Streeter, wife of Chicago eccentric George Wellington Streeter, posing with her dog in her garden in "Streeterville." |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Small vegetable store known as the North Shore (Home Grown) Vegetable House, along the north shore of Lake Michigan. To the right of the store two men are ... |
Date: | 05 15 1918 |
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Description: | Vacant city lot cluttered with litter and advertising billboards for Premium Ham and Bacon and Wool Soap. The department likely used the photograph to show... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Man using a Mogul 10-20(?) tractor with attached plow to plow garden lots in an urban residential neighborhood at Jackson Blvd. and 54th Street. "This outf... |
Date: | 05 1917 |
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Description: | Large crowd of school children and adults gathered for a school garden dedication. Original caption reads: "Mr. Prost making a talk at a garden dedication ... |
Date: | 05 1917 |
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Description: | Men, women and children at work in community gardens at 38th and St. Louis streets in Chicago. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of... |
Date: | 07 1932 |
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Description: | African American woman tending to her plot in the McCormick Works' garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harves... |
Date: | 07 1932 |
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Description: | Mother and her two daughters posing near a version of International Harvester's logo at the McCormick Works community garden. The garden was one of several... |
Date: | 08 1932 |
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Description: | Mother and her two daughters at work in the McCormick Works community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Har... |
Date: | 07 1932 |
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Description: | Man bending over to pick vegetables in the West Pullman Works' community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International ... |
Date: | 08 1932 |
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Description: | Man picking vegetables in the Wisconsin Steel Works community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harvester's... |
Date: | 07 1932 |
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Description: | Man and woman picking vegetables in the Deering Works Community Garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harvester... |
Date: | 07 1932 |
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Description: | Three men picking vegetables in the Deering Works community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harvester's "... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | A man operates a balling machine while another handles spools of binder twine. The men may have been working at the McCormick twine mill in Chicago. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Men in a factory comb fiber (fibre), the first process preparatory to spinning. International Harvester used sisal fiber to make binder twine. The men may ... |
Date: | 08 1930 |
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Description: | View from road of the landscaping in front of a Texaco gas station located on 83rd and Stoney Island. |
Date: | 04 1925 |
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Description: | Men and women are using the resources at the IHC Agricultural Extension Department Library, located at 616 S. Michigan Avenue. |
Date: | 04 1924 |
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Description: | View down a tree-lined street of cars parked near 68th and Crandon Avenue. Identical apartment buildings are on both sides of the street. |
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