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Outdoor Group Portrait of European American Family; O'Brien Family

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a family group posing standing in front of a wooden house and between two carriages drawn by horses. The group is identified as t...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of European American Children

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of three unidentified children posing in the yard in front of a small wooden house. Two children are standing on either side of a yo...
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Woman at a Brick House

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Description: View across field towards a European American woman posing sitting on the porch of a two-story brick house. A ladder is leaning against the porch roof.
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Field Work at Luke's Nursery

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Description: Slightly elevated view of plants supported with stakes in a field. There is a water tower in the background on top of a hill on the right. People are worki...
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Woman Driving a Buggy

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Description: View from side of unpaved road towards a woman posing sitting in a wagon holding the reins of a single horse in a rural area with open fields.
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Wrecked Car in a Ditch

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Description: View looking uphill towards a wrecked automobile resting in a ditch off the road. Probably due to an accident. People are standing near the top of the hill...
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Men Fishing off a Bridge

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Description: View from bridge towards three men standing on the bridge and fishing. The road in the background rises up a small hill, and a building is in the distance.
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Woman on a Horse

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Description: Exterior portrait of a woman posing sitting side-saddle on a horse in a field. There are roads in the background, and a building in the distance on the rig...
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Man with Pig Swill Cart

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man posing standing. He is holding a cart made of a barrel with two large metal wheels. Identified as probably a pig swill cart. A do...
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Man with a Team of Horses

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Description: A man standing outdoors in a field behind two horses holding the reins. The horses are wearing fly nets and blinders.
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Group of Men with Thresher

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Description: In the foreground on the left are two men sitting on machinery belt driving the thresher. In the background, a man is standing and holding the bridles of t...
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Binder and Threshing

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Description: View across field towards three men operating a binder and threshing machinery pulled by a team of four horses.
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Woman Posing with Cows

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a woman wearing a light-colored dress, apron, and a hat. She is standing holding a cow and a calf. In the background is a cornfield and...
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Cow by a Fence

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Description: A cow standing by a wooden fence, with a field and wooden building in the background.
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Building a Barn

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Description: View across field towards two men posing standing on the frame of a barn under construction next to a large haystack.
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Run-Down Farm Buildings

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Description: Elevated view down hill towards a wooden building in the distance. There are haystacks next to the building. There is a forested hill in the background.
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A Sow and Her Litter in a Pig Pen

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Description: View across fence towards a pigpen, towards a sow and piglets. In the background are trees and a hill in the distance.
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Group with a Horse-Drawn Thresher

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Description: Exterior portrait of a group of men and women posing standing near a thresher pulled by a team of four horses wearing fly nets.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: Exterior portrait of a man posed standing on a tractor running threshing machinery in the distance next to a group of men and a haystack.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: View towards a man posing sitting on threshing machinery pulled by a team of three horses in a field.

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