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Woman Pumping Water from Farmhouse Well

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Description: Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse.
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Woman Throwing Out Wash Water

Date: 1925
Description: Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse.
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Farm Hazard: Playing with Firecrackers

Date: 1927
Description: Staged scene of young boy about to light large firecracker. He is sitting on steps, and a push scooter is lying on its side on the sidewalk. This photograp...
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Mother and Children Play on House Steps

Date: 1920
Description: Mother and her four children playing on the steps of a house. The children are playing with blocks, dolls and a stuffed animal.
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Backdoor Walk of Residence

Date: 05 1925
Description: Gravel rear walkway of residence. Small tin container with lid, and a wire mesh mat are set just outside the backdoor steps. Original caption identifies th...
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Landscaping around Public Library

Date: 08 1930
Description: View from sidewalk of the landscaping outside a public library in St. Charles, Illinois.
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Girls Seated on Front Stoop

Date: 1925
Description: Two small girls seated on the front stoop of a house.
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Danger of Firearms

Date: 08 1927
Description: A man sits on wooden outdoor stairs holding a firearm, while three children standing around him.
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Woman Washing Wooden Porch

Date: 04 23 1926
Description: A woman wearing a dress, hat, and stockings uses a mop and bucket to wash a damaged wooden porch attached to a farmhouse.
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Broken Steps

Date: 04 19 1925
Description: View of the door leading into a grainery, with broken floorboards and wooden steps.
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Descending Stairs without Railing

Date: 03 1926
Description: A man carrying a burlap bag over his shoulder descends a flight of wooden stairs without a railing.
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Salting Ice-Covered Steps

Date: 03 11 1926
Description: A man uses salt from a metal pail to cover ice-covered steps to the farmhouse at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Produce Farming Lecture

Date: 1915
Description: Men stand around or sit on the steps of a stone building to listen as A.E. Chamberlain delivers a lesson on the benefits of vegetable production. Chamberla...
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Students with Bird House Projects

Date: 1915
Description: Group of school children standing on the steps of a school house(?) holding their bird house projects.
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Group Gathered for "Corn is King" Lecture

Date: 1917
Description: Group of men and women seated on the front steps of a building (possibly a school) with corn cobs and other items used for an Agricultural Extension lectur...
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Young Woman Sweeping Steps

Date: 02 1915
Description: Young African American woman sweeping front steps of a residence. Original caption reads: "the 'sedge brush' broom is used a great deal for light sweeping ...
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Cellar Entrance

Date: 1923
Description: A woman wearing an apron and holding a bowl is posing on the stairs of a cellar bulkhead on the side of a farmhouse. A bell on a wooden pole is next to the...
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Outdoor Wash Stand

Date: 1923
Description: A boy using a pitcher and bowl set on a table outdoors to wash up after doing farm chores.
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Fly Trap

Date: 1924
Description: A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden.

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