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Two Girls Standing in Yard

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Description: View across lawn towards two girls standing at the corner of a brick building. There is a large building in the background. One of the girls appears to be ...
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Vines on Porch of House

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Description: View towards the porch of a house, with vines thickly covering and shading the porch. Flowers and potted plants are along the front walk and on the railing...
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Four Boys Working in Garden

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Description: Four boys are working in a garden at Armour School. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Park Manor School

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Description: Children are working in a garden at Park Manor school. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Trash in Yard of House

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Description: Trash-strewn lot and broken fence next to a small house. Laundry is hanging out to dry near the front of the house. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Girls and Boys Working in Garden

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Description: A group of girls and boys are working in a garden. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Tomato Club Growers — Dist. 4

Date: 1914
Description: Two women are using gardening tools in a tomato garden. A barn is on a slope below them in the background. Katherine Groty (?). Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Ivy-Covered House and Fence

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Description: A small child is standing behind a gate in a vine-covered fence. The house in the background is covered in ivy. Possibly the "before" phototograph to prece...
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Backyards Along "K" Street

Date: 1904
Description: Elevated view of a number of backyards after planting. There is a factory building in the background on the left, and children playing in sand in the foreg...
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Children Working in Garden at Van Vlissingen School

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Description: Children, boys and girls, are working in a garden at the school. The stone and brick school building has arched windows. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Two Boys Standing Next to Sign

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Description: Two boys are standing next to a sign that reads: "Cook County School-Home Project, Garden, Elmer Finke. Lantern slide.
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Young Girl and Boy in Yard of House

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Description: View from street towards a girl and boy standing on a walk next to a house. There is a fence in front of the house along the sidewalk. On the left is a bic...
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Backyard of House in Urban Neighborhood

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Description: Elevated view of a backyard, with wooden walkways and barrels in an urban neighborhood. Caption reads: "Typical backyard before landscape gardening was tau...
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K Street House After Planting

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Description: House on a street corner covered with ivy and surrounded by plants and lawn. There is a factory and a large smokestack in the background. Hand-tinted lante...
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Cottages on K Street Before Planting

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Description: Cottages on K Street before planting. Lantern slide.
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Two Boys Standing in Backyard Garden

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Description: University of Chicago Association "Gardening" South Deering. Lantern slide.
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Ernst's Backyard After Planting

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Description: Grass, bushes and flowers border a lawn in front of a house in a neighborhood. There is a factory in the background. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Ernst's Backyard Before Planting

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Description: View across lawn, with wooden walkway, towards a house. A fence is on the right, and more houses are in the background on the left. In the far background i...
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Gardens of the Patterson School

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Description: View towards a brick school building with garden in foreground. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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People on Lawn in front of Building

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Description: People are sitting and standing on a sidewalk and a lawn in front of a large brick and stone building. There is a turret near the entrance with a flag flyi...

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