Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the ... |
Date: | 1924 |
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Description: | At Louisiana State University, an instructor lectures a group of children on agriculture using charts prepared by International Harvester Company. The lect... |
Date: | 04 1923 |
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Description: | A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background. |
Date: | 04 1923 |
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Description: | An outhouse without a door during the winter. The outhouse is situated under a tree behind a farmhouse. |
Date: | |
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Description: | People assembled at storefront along the street of a small town in "poor farming country." |
Date: | 07 1930 |
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Description: | Downtown Aurora, a "prosperous town in good farming country," seen from the street. |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Sitting on pig pen fence, a county agent is demonstrating methods of judging swine to a local Boys & Girls club youth. |
Date: | 05 1928 |
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Description: | A young boy holding a lunch box has his hand on his head while standing on the grounds of Viall School. |
Date: | 05 1928 |
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Description: | Boy idling away time with a rifle under a tree on the grounds of a rural school. |
Date: | 05 1928 |
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Description: | Two young girls playing on a tree swing on the grounds of Viall School. |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Boys practicing for winter basketball games on the farm of Marcus Johnson. |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Young Robert Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Bailey, holding up a baseball catcher's mitt. |
Date: | 05 1928 |
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Description: | Boys playing baseball on the grounds of Viall School. |
Date: | 05 1928 |
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Description: | School children and teachers from Lemont township marching in a rural school festival parade. The children are dressed in white cloaks and hats bearing a m... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Man, most likely R.G. Brooks, showing a Milwaukee grain binder to three Native Americans in traditional dress in front of McCormick Works. One of the Nativ... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | An empty street outside McCormick Station on the Illinois Northern Railway. An overpass bears a sign for the McCormick Freight Station on the same railroad... |
Date: | 09 26 1914 |
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Description: | Employees of International Harvester's Deering Works take a break from a volleyball match outside the factory. The match pitted workers from the twine mill... |
Date: | 07 13 1905 |
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Description: | International Harvester's Deering Works as seen from railroad tracks near the waterfront. The factory was located at Fullerton and Clybourn Avenues, across... |
Date: | 07 13 1905 |
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Description: | Workers milling around the factory gates at the Fullerton Avenue side of International Harvester's Deering Works. The factory was originally built by Willi... |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Deering Works factory seen across the waterfront from Diversey Avenue. In the foreground is a street and sidewalk with the sign "horse vehicles keep to rig... |
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