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Boy Pushing Baby Carriage along Street

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Description: Dirty and disheveled boy with no shoes standing in the street with a baby carriage.
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Young Children Play in Squalid Alley

Date: 1925
Description: Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley.
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Group Portrait of African Americans in front of Building

Date: 02 17 1915
Description: Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house.
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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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Woman Washing Clothes with Engine-Driven Washer

Date: 07 1927
Description: Woman washing clothes outdoors with a Dexter washing machine powered by a stationary McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 horsepower type "M" engine. Photograph taken a...
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Young Boy Drinking Glass of Milk

Date: 1919
Description: Young boy sitting outdoors on a chair drinking a glass of milk.
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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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Children at Play in Rural Setting

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Description: Children and a few adults (possibly teachers) hold hands in a circle while other children stand by or swing under a tree in a rural setting. Horse-drawn ca...
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School Children Playing "Baby in the Hole"

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees.
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Children Saluting the Flag

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Summers' pupils saluting as an American flag is raised outside Pleasant View School. The original caption reads: "Loyal U.S. citizens in the making."
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Man Spraying Field Crops

Date: 1919
Description: Young man in a field spraying pesticide on crops for the Bowker Insecticide Company.
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School Children Folk Dancing

Date: 1919
Description: School children dancing in a circle to music from a Victrola phonograph as women look on. The children are outdoors, possibly in a rural schoolyard.
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Children at Work and Play in Schoolyard

Date: 1917
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...
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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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School Girls in Running Race

Date: 06 1916
Description: Six girls in a running race at the School Festival in Palos Park.
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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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Man Operates Oliver No. 36 Plow

Date: 1913
Description: Man operating an Oliver no. 36 horse-drawn walking plow in a field with factory buildings in the background. The photograph was taken for, or compiled by I...
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Man Operating Oliver No. 1 Gang Plow

Date: 1911
Description: Man operating an Oliver no. 1 horse-drawn gang plow as another man and a boy look on. The plow was produced from 1911 to 1916 by the Oliver Chilled Plow Co...
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Farmer with Horse-Drawn Oliver No. 82 Plow

Date: 1913
Description: Man operating an unidentified Oliver plow, with no. 82 moldboard, drawn by two horses. The photograph was taken for, or compiled by International Harvester...

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