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Making Sorghum Molasses

Date: 1910
Description: Steam is rising from a "cooking pan" where sorghum juice is boiling. There is a smokestack at left and a pile of fire wood on the right. Barrels, milk cans...
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Will and Cutter

Date: 1905
Description: Will von der Sump sitting in a small sleigh with a glossy finish. He is bundled in a fur coat with a high collar, and is wearing a cap. There is a fur lap ...
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Browning School

Date: 12 15 1904
Description: Children of a range of ages are standing with their teacher in front of the Browning School. The children are well-dressed in winter clothes. The school is...
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Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A woman holding the reins of a saddled horse is standing next to a Milwaukee No. 10 grain harvester and binder hitched to three horses. A man is sitting on...
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Belle Fountain School

Date: 1905
Description: Leta von der Sump, standing at rear left, posing with thirteen children on the front platform of Belle Fountain School. There are two doors on the front of...
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Group at Ed Kearns

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of three men, seven women, and eleven children, including two infants, posing in front of a two-story wood frame house. They are shaded by t...
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Haas and Von der Sump Families

Date: 1905
Description: An outdoor group portrait of members of the Haas and Von der Sump families. They include Leta von der Sump, sitting on the ground on the far left; Hattie...
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Lampke Family

Date: 1905
Description: A man and woman are posing sitting on chairs on the lawn of a wood frame farmhouse. A man and two young women stand behind them. The group is well-dressed....
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O'Keefe Family

Date: 1905
Description: A man wearing a suit and hat is sitting on a hammock holding a small child (blurred by movement) in his lap. Standing at left is a woman wearing a fancy li...
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Sorghum Mill

Date: 1905
Description: A little girl posing with men and boys, probably members of the Cuff family, around a portable sorghum mill. One young man is holding a bundle of cane as a...
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Cutting Fire Wood

Date: 1905
Description: Six men posing in front of a portable steam driven circular saw on the Von der Sump farm. A portion of the saw blade is visible between two men in the cent...
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Going to School

Date: 1905
Description: The seven children of August and Kate Hernkind posing in the box of a wagon sleigh pulled by a matched team. The children are dressed warmly and there is s...
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Flood at Dates Mill

Date: 1905
Description: View upstream towards five young men and boys posing on the flooded bridge at Dates Mill as water rushes from the swollen mill pond into French Creek. Anot...
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Tractor and Thresher

Date: 09 15 1904
Description: Three men are posing on a large steam tractor, and a fourth man is sitting on a threshing machine behind the tractor. The large drive belt is coiled and is...
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Herbert Whirry and Horses

Date: 1905
Description: View across road towards a smiling young man posing riding bareback on a horse as a foal is standing in the foreground nearby. The indistinct figure of a w...
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Mock Wedding

Date: 08 23 1904
Description: A group of young adults and children are posing outdoors near the open porch of a house in a mock wedding ceremony. The groom, third from left, is portraye...
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Rye Field

Date: 1902
Description: Frank von der Sump is driving a three horse team which is pulling a grain harvester and binder. There are sheaves of rye in the background. Trees cover the...
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James Kearns Family

Date: 1905
Description: Members of the James Kearns family are photographed through the open gate of a woven wire fence. They are posing on and in front of the porch of a large tw...
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Cousin Herman's House

Date: 1910
Description: View across lawn towards a well-kept, two-story wood frame house with two visible one-story extensions, both with a porch. On the left a man and woman are ...
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Ed Kearns House

Date: 1905
Description: View over tall grass towards Ed Kearns, standing at far right, posing with his family near the porch of the house. A little girl is standing next to him, h...

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