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Sewing Saturday Mornings at Neighborhood House

Date: 1924
Description: Groups of children are sitting at tables for a Saturday morning sewing group at Neighborhood House, with a woman helping the children at each table. One bo...
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Afternoon English Class at Neighborhood House

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Description: Group of women seated at tables with a freestanding blackboard on which are written English words and phrases. One of the women in the foreground appears t...
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Children Playing Games at Neighborhood House

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Description: Children seated at tables playing board games and working on a jigsaw puzzle, with three women assisting.
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Demonstrating Infant Care at Neighborhood House

Date: 1929
Description: View of a woman standing at a table demonstrating infant care (swaddling?) using a baby doll to five women and two children who are sitting in chairs facin...
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Neighborhood House Boys Club with Log Cabin

Date: 1926
Description: Seven boys standing outdoors around a table with a model of a log cabin and its surroundings on it. A building with narrow siding is in the background.
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Young Woman with Home Canning Equipment

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Description: A young woman is working in a kitchen with home canning equipment. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Woman and Girls with Canned Vegetables

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Description: Group portrait of women and girls standing and sitting outdoors. They are each holding a can of IH Brand canned tomatoes. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Young Girl Looking at Window Box

Date: 1904
Description: A young girl wearing a white dress and a ribbon in her hair is standing on a sidewalk and reaching up to a vine growing in a window box on the side of a wo...
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The First Tomato Club at Work

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Description: Woman and young girls are standing at a table outdoors. They are cleaning tomatoes in a bowl, and cans of tomatoes are stacked nearby. Hand-tinted lantern ...
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Portrait of a Woman

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of a woman. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Portrait of Woman

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Description: Waist-up portrait of a woman sitting in a chair. Lantern slide.
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Girl Sitting at Piano

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Description: A girl is sitting at a piano. A sign on the piano reads: "Cook County School-Home Project — Music." Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Anna Holt Wheeler and Guests on the Porch at the Ark Cottage

Date: 1911
Description: A small group is gathered on the porch of the Ark cottage in the daytime. Looking at the camera, a young woman, possibly Rose or Agnes Wilson, is sitting i...
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Dry Goods Store

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Description: Interior of a Dry Goods or a 5 & 10 Cent Store. Two men and a woman are standing on the left side of the large central display counter. Some of the product...
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Two Men Standing Indoors

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Description: Two men are standing indoors, one man on the left and the other on the right. In the center is a vintage hand crank phonograph. A sign hanging on the back ...
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Two Men in Bowling Alley

Date: 1914
Description: Two men stand in a four lane bowling alley. Each man is holding a bowling ball. Between them is a Brunswick Balke Collender ball return post with a towel h...
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Group in Soda Fountain

Date: 1920
Description: Group portrait of people standing and posing in a restaurant/soda fountain. Three women are standing on the left near a twisted wire table and chairs, a gl...

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