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Griggs Album: Kindergarten Goes to Vilas Park

Date: 06 1925
Description: Children posing in the back of an open truck wagon in front of the Neighborhood House Infant Welfare Clinic. The wagon is marked "Frautschi". This is the f...
Photograph

Rex Magnus Club

Date: 10 09 1887
Description: A large group of men pose outside the Rex Magnus Club. Some of the men on the left are holding musical instruments. The words "Rex Magnus" are on the roof.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Keystone Farms

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Description: View of barn, house, and outbuildings at Keystone Farms, owned by Owen W. Rolands.
Photograph

J.E. Rhodes & Co., Pork and Beef Packers

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Description: View from street of the front of the J.E. Rhodes & Co., Pork and Beef Packers building on Main Street. A group of men, with a cat and a dog, are posing in ...
Photograph

C.E. Morgan Dry Goods Bazaar

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Description: View from street of the C.E. Morgan Dry Goods Bazaar on North Pinckney at East Mifflin. Two women are standing in the doorway on the left, and two men are ...
Photograph

East Main Street Looking S.E.

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Description: View across East Main Street towards a row of businesses, looking southeast. From the left, the corner building has a tobacco shop with a law office above,...
Photograph

Bank of Wisconsin

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Description: View from street towards two men posing at the entrance to the Bank of Wisconsin on Main Street. The window has Savings Department painted on it, and insid...
Photograph

East Main Street

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Description: View down East Main Street, with a number of horse-drawn carriages parked at the curbs. Snow is in the street. There is a barber's pole on the sidewalk on ...
Photograph

Truck

Date: 1930
Description: A 1925 Ford Model T Roadster pickup is parked in a field of red-blooming wildflowers. There is a man in the driver's seat, another man is reclining on the ...
Photograph

Children Holding Birdhouses

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of eight children standing in a row in front of the Standard School. Each child is holding a birdhouse in their hands. Lantern slide...
Photograph

Children Holding Birdhouses

Date: 1917
Description: Outdoor group portrait of children standing in front of the Standard School. Each child is holding a birdhouse in their hands, and four of the children is ...
Photograph

Children Holding Birdhouses

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of children standing in front of the Standard School. Each child is holding a birdhouse in their hands, and one of the children in t...
Photograph

Display of Canned Vegetables

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Description: Canned vegetables are displayed on a table, with signs and illustrations hanging on the wall behind. One sign includes the text: "Canning Clubs 1913, South...
Photograph

Girl with Birdhouse in front of Standard School

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Description: A young girl is standing with a large birdhouse in front of the large, arched doorway of the Standard School. The sign on the birdhouse reads: "Fourth Grad...
Photograph

Man Speaking to Group of People

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Description: A man is standing and speaking to a group of men and women. They are gathered outdoors, and a sign on a barn above the door in the background reads: "1906 ...
Photograph

Corn on Display

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Description: Corn on display in stacks, on tables rising up for nine levels, and at the top is a sign that reads: "Grown by the Farmer Boys of Illinois." Lantern slide.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Community Garden, Cook County

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Description: Group portrait of men, women and children standing in a field behind a fence. A sign on a post reads: "Community Garden, Cook County, Dist. 124." Hand-tint...
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Cicero School Garden Club

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Description: Henry and Violet Schmietendorf are standing in a vegetable garden next to a sign that reads: "Cicero School Garden Club." Lantern slide.

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