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Relaxation on Hammocks

Date: 1898
Description: Men and women sitting in two hammocks. The people pictured are Julia Murray Ormsby, Fred Werner, and R. Effie (Ettie) Meinhold.
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Man Hewing Logs

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Description: A seated man hews logs in front of a barn. In the background, a rolling landscape is visible.
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Family Scything in a Field

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Description: Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row.
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Gathering Cranberries

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Description: Men and women in a bog picking cranberries.
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Group Picking Cranberries

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Description: A group of men and women pick cranberries in a bog.
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Three Men Extracting a Stump

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Description: Three men working with a two-horse team on a hill turning a winch to extract stumps, probably a Svenson Grubber sold by J.H. Carnahan.
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Construction of a Stone Foundation Barn

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Description: Two men stand on the rafters of an unfinished, stone foundation barn.
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Horses and Colts on Farm

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Description: Two men are attending to three horses and three colts in a farmyard.
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Horses in Barnyard

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Description: Two men attend to three horses and three colts. A number of farm buildings are in the background.
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Man with Horses in Snow-Covered Field

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Description: A man and six horses standing in a snow-covered field on a hill.
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Farmers with Team of Horses

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Description: A farmer drives a team of three horses hitched to a manure spreader. Another man stands next to the team, holding an additional horse by its reins.
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Horses Pulling a Wagon

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Description: Two horses pull a farmer's wagon. The corner of a building is on the left, and trees are in the background. A hill is in the distance.
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Horse-Drawn Buggy

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Description: Right side profile view of a man sitting in a covered buggy that is pulled by a horse. Buildings are behind trees and bushes in the background.
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Buggy in front of House

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Description: Two men sit in a buggy pulled by a horse wearing a fly-net. The buggy pauses in the yard in front of a frame house.
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Young Man in Horse-Drawn Vehicle

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Description: A young man sits in a covered buggy that is pulled by a team of two horses.
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Man and Women in Buggy

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Description: A man and woman sit in a buggy that is pulled by a two-horse team.
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Woman Posing Side-Saddle on Horse

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Description: A woman rides a horse side-saddle in a farmhouse yard. In the background, a group of men and women gather on the farmhouse porch.
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Man, Woman and Girl Posed in front of Carriage

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Description: A man, woman and girl stand in front of a carriage pulled by a horse in the woods.
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Crowded Wagon Team

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Description: A crowded wagon pulled by a team of two horses meets other buggies on a country road.
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Horse and Buggy on Farm

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Description: Two carriages are on a dirt road of a farm under trees. Children are sitting and standing in the yard on the left.

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