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Road Sign Warning of Curve Ahead

Date: 05 1926
Description: A sign reading: "Look Curve L." is posted along the side of a paved road. An automobile is on the road in the background.
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Man Sitting on Front Porch

Date: 1914
Description: View from a street of a man seated on the front porch steps of a house. A picket fence and front walk are in the foreground.
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Farm Buildings and Windmill

Date: 1914
Description: View over a pond of several farm buildings surrounded by trees and a windmill.
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Farm House and Garden

Date: 1908
Description: View over front garden of a single-story farmhouse with a wrap-around porch. A woman is sitting in a rocking chair on the porch. Other farm buildings and a...
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Engine-Powered Water Pump

Date: 10 1923
Description: A 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine powering a water pump outside of a building on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Fence Post Removal

Date: 1915
Description: A man uses a "handy device for pulling old fence post" (original caption).
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Silo and Barn

Date: 1920
Description: Farm buildings, including a barn, silo and windmill. There is a man dressed in overalls and a wide-brimmed hat standing near an automobile. Caption reads: ...
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Two Dogs Near Corn Crib

Date: 1915
Description: Small wooden farm building with two dogs sitting in front. There appears to be corn stacked inside. The ground is covered in snow.
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Farm Building: Wooden House

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of a wooden house, with a family, including a man, woman, dog and child on the porch. The woman is using a sewing machine near the open front...
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Fenced-In Farmhouse

Date: 
Description: Farmhouse with a porch in front and farm buildings in the back. Thee is a fence around the farmhouse yard. Original caption reads: "Seven room house of S. ...
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Deteriorated Farm Building

Date: 1915
Description: Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar...
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Family Standing in front of Climbing Plant

Date: 1920
Description: Family, including a man, two boys and a girl, standing in front of a farm house and a large climbing plant.
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Man with Scythe and Dog

Date: 
Description: A man is standing in front of a barn holding a scythe while sharpening it. A dog is in the foreground.
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Young Child with Cat

Date: 
Description: Young child sitting in an open doorway petting a cat.
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Three Children in Horse-Drawn Carriage

Date: 
Description: View of three children sitting in a horse-drawn carriage on a road.
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Mr. Robertson's Children

Date: 09 1923
Description: Two of Mr. Robertson's children, perhaps twins, are posing sitting outdoors holding stacks of apples in their lap. Behind them are apple trees and a sign t...
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Agricultural Educator Dr. F.A. Wolfe on Mule

Date: 
Description: Dr. F.A. Wolfe making one of his speaking engagements on mule back, taking his chart with him as shown, after the road became so impassable that a team and...
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Dry Farming Style of Shocks of Wheat

Date: 1920
Description: View of shocks of wheat in a field.
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Loading Corn into Silo

Date: 
Description: View across barnyard towards men loading corn into a silo on a farm. The men are working on the right with horse-drawn wagons loaded with cornstalks. A tra...
Book or Pamphlet

Fourth and Fifth Steps in Shocking Wheat

Date: 1920
Description: A man is building up a shock of wheat in a field.

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