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Women and Children in Field with Walking Plow

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ...
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Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1916
Description: Large group of students and teachers working in the Tyler School Gardens. The director of the school (or gardens?) was E.M. Bardwell.
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Farmers with Horse-Drawn Walking Plows

Date: 1919
Description: Two men plowing a field with horse-drawn walking plows. The photograph was taken for, or compiled by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depar...
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Horse-Drawn Plow Competition

Date: 1913
Description: Two men appear to be competing in a plowing competition with horse-drawn walking plows. Onlookers and automobiles are in the background. The photograph was...
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Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Large group of school children tending to their school garden plots.
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Winter Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Dr. Beeson tending to lettuce and onions in his winter garden. Original caption reads: "These vegetables have been under cultivation all winter and have be...
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Mrs. Streeter in Her Garden

Date: 05 09 1917
Description: Mrs. Streeter, wife of Chicago eccentric George Wellington Streeter, posing with her dog in her garden in "Streeterville."
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Families at Work in Community Gardens

Date: 05 1917
Description: Men, women and children at work in community gardens at 38th and St. Louis streets in Chicago.
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African American Woman at Work in McCormick Works' Community Garden

Date: 07 1932
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...
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Woman and Girls in McCormick Works' Community Garden

Date: 08 1932
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...
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Field Work

Date: 1920
Description: Two men working with walking cultivators(?) in a field.
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Cutting Weeds

Date: 08 1929
Description: A man using a scythe to cut weeds from a pasture of wild carrots.
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Mowing Weeds

Date: 1921
Description: A man using a scythe to cut weeds in field.
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Family Weeding Garden

Date: 08 1914
Description: John Van Ness and his niece and nephew removing weeds from their "truck patch." Mr. Van Ness is using a hoe.
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Harvesting Wheat with a Cradle

Date: 1918
Description: A farmer using a cradle to harvest wheat in a field. Farm buildings are in the far background.
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Feeding Hogs

Date: 07 1923
Description: A farmer is standing on a wagon shoveling ear corn to hogs in a nearby pen.
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Plowing with a 10-20 Tractor

Date: 04 1923
Description: A farmer using a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to plow a field on the J.W. Esch farm.
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Refilling a Silo

Date: 02 22 1927
Description: Two men are refilling a silo using a silo filler at the IHC Experimental Farm.
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Alfalfa Field "The Manx"

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Description: Photographic postcard view across harvested field towards a man holding a rake and standing next to a horse-drawn wagon, and two women in the wagon sitting...
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Man Plowing in Field

Date: 1918
Description: Side view of man using an International Harvester Titan 10-20 tractor and a Janesville three bottom plow to work in a field. Farm buildings are in the far ...

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