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| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
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| Description: | Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no impr... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. |
| Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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| Description: | Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine. |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | A man using a scythe to cut weeds from a pasture of wild carrots. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing hats pouring cement from a bucket into a wooden form to build a foundation for a silo. Behind them is a farm building. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men working on the construction site for a new silo. Three men work in a pit to establish the foundation, and three other men work in the background near a... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Rear view of three men wearing hats, and pants with suspenders, using grain cradles to harvest a field crop. Multiple buildings, including a barn, are on a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men carry fiber on their shoulders onto a wooden wharf. The fiber, probably from manila plants, is also piled near a building in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men carrying cut sisal leaves to take to a decorticating mill (which removes the outer husk), loading them on a donkey, and tram car which is on rails. |
| Date: | 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a field, and another man drives a team of horses pulling a hay rake. Original caption reads: "Demonstration farms. Alfalfa, with and withou... |
| Date: | 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Man feeding cattle sweet clover hay from stock on an International Harvester demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 03 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing overalls and a straw hat is carrying a metal pail across a barnyard. |
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