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| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Three boys purchase fireworks from the proprietor of a National Fireworks tent near Ogden Avenue. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Ag... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Young boy and a toddler relaxing on a homemade tree swing made with an automobile seat. |
| 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... |
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