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Outhouse behind Farmhouse

Date: 04 1923
Description: An outhouse without a door during the winter. The outhouse is situated under a tree behind a farmhouse.
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Farm Boys Playing Basketball

Date: 1929
Description: Boys practicing for winter basketball games on the farm of Marcus Johnson.
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Children Toil in Community Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets.
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Farm Hazard: Children with Things in Their Mouths

Date: 07 1927
Description: Young farm boy holding a paint bucket and paper bag and has a pencil in his mouth. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Ext...
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Woman Operating Cream Separator

Date: 11 1919
Description: Mrs. Robert Viall operating a belt-driven cream separator. The separator is powered by an International engine.
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Home Economics — Farm Home and Yard

Date: 05 1925
Description: Farm house and yard "showing farmyard equipment too close to the front porch." The yard contains a stationary engine, saw, lumber, and homemade buildings.
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Pupils Studying Corn

Date: 1913
Description: A group of children studying ears of corn outside small wooden shacks or corn cribs.
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Man and Girl Milking Cow Outdoors

Date: 05 1924
Description: A man and a little girl milking a cow with a pail at Cutten Farms. A note with the original print reads: "Tuberculosis Must Go (Cover)." This was the title...
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Farmer Pouring Milk for Son

Date: 03 1924
Description: Farmer Hal Ament pouring milk from a pail into a glass for his young son as they stand at the gate of their farmhouse.
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Bull Along Roadside

Date: 08 1929
Description: Bull standing along a rural road with farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Better tether him out than for him not to get pasture."
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Calves in Pasture

Date: 08 1929
Description: Young dairy cows feeding in a clover pasture with farm buildings in the background.
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Farm Shed

Date: 1918
Description: Interior of a farm shed showing a small gasoline engine, wash tub, feed grinder and other equipment powered by a system of pulleys and belts.
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Woman in Garden

Date: 1919
Description: Woman handling tomato plants in a vegetable garden.
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Man Operating International Corn Sheller

Date: 1930
Description: Man feeding corn cobs into an International all steel one-hole corn sheller.
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Man on Ladder Repairing Farm Building

Date: 1925
Description: R.A. Hayne on a ladder repairing a barn door.
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Woman Working with Milk Cans

Date: 1924
Description: Woman standing at a table with milk cans on it. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. A caption with th...
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Zula Belle Walker with Poultry Flock

Date: 1917
Description: Six year-old Zula Belle Walker of McDonald Chapel, Jefferson County, feeding her mongrel flock of poultry.
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Incubator Room

Date: 03 1914
Description: Two men working in the incubator room of U.R. Fishel.
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Boy Feeding Chickens

Date: 1914
Description: A boy is feeding a flock of chickens near a fence and a barn. Two horses are standing inside the open doorway of the barn.
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Inexpensive Poultry House

Date: 1914
Description: A young child feeding a flock of chickens outside of a poultry house. A farmhouse is in the background.

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