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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | One man and two women on an urban sidewalk with baskets of produce. The man's basket is decorated with white stars on a dark field. The people are probably... |
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| Description: | Two men using a crane to unload wagon box on the waterfront. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Young girl wrapping or unwrapping produce from baskets on an urban street, possibly in Chicago, Illinois. The girl is likely offering the produce. A boy an... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the ... |
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| Description: | People assembled at storefront along the street of a small town in "poor farming country." |
| Date: | 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Downtown Aurora, a "prosperous town in good farming country," seen from the street. |
| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | School children and teachers from Lemont township marching in a rural school festival parade. The children are dressed in white cloaks and hats bearing a m... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Twelve piece brass band playing at a railroad station during the "Union Pacific Preparedness Special Campaign." |
| Date: | 04 18 1917 |
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| Description: | Young boys digging a garden in an urban setting on "Mowhawk Street near Larrabee." Original caption reads: "Newberry School boys who have gotten into the h... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| Date: | 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ... |
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| Description: | Farmer hauling corn to market with an ox-driven wagon. Original caption notes that oxen were used considerably in the south for motive power. |
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| Description: | Two farmers standing in the bed of a wooden Columbus wagon loaded with groceries and other goods. The original caption reads: "One of the reasons why Alaba... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 04 09 1917 |
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| Description: | Two riders on an early Excelsior-Henderson motorcycle near a community garden at Harrison and Jefferson streets in Chicago. An International Harvester trac... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Boys working in a garden while smaller children dance in a circle on the grounds of Middlefield No. 2 Consolidated School in Ostego County. Teachers are lo... |
| 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. |
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