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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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Farmers and Threshing Machine

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Description: A group of eight farmers resting on or near a wooden threshing machine.
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Framework of a Barn

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Description: Four men work on the framework of a barn.
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Women and Farmer Posing in a Field

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Description: Five women, two seated in a carriage hitched to a horse and three on foot pose in a field with a farmer.
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Kitchen Crew

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Description: Four men wearing white aprons attend to kitchen duties outdoors at a campsite. There is a tent in the background.
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Man Cooking Over Open Fire

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Description: A man wearing an apron cooks over an open fire at a campsite near a tent. Smoke or sunlight obscures the image.
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Interior of a Factory

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Description: Interior of a factory with two blurred men on the right, and men in the background on the left.
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Dam Construction

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Description: Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam.
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High School Construction

Date: 1897
Description: View towards front entrance of the partially constructed Senior High School. A man is walking up a board into the open doorway of the school. A horse is st...
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Virgil Taylor and Three Men

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Description: Indoor group portrait of four European American men posing sitting at a table and eating a meal in a wooden building with exposed walls and ceiling. The ma...
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The McDonalds of North Bend

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a European American family posing in the yard in front of a wooden house. The man on the far left is holding a gun upright in his...
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Man

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Description: Exterior portrait of an unidentified man posing standing outside a barn building, lighting a cigarette. He is wearing striped overalls and a hat.
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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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Men Working in a Field

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Description: Ten men are working in a field. They are bending over and digging with shovels.
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York Iron Works

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Description: Indoor view down a long room in an industrial building, with several men posing standing, some with shovels. A man is standing in the right foreground. Ide...
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York Iron Works

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Description: Indoor view of a large industrial building, with a man posing standing in the distance. Identified as the interior of the York Iron Works.
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Quarry Laborers

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Description: View across railroad tracks towards a group of men posing standing and sitting near a rock face and a track. Identified as probably the quarry connected to...
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Quarry Laborers

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Description: Group portrait of men posing standing near and on a rock face with shovels and pickaxes. Behind them are shrubs and trees on a hill, with a power line at t...
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Quarry Laborers by the River

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Description: View across railroad tracks towards a group of men standing near and on a rock face an a cliff above a river. Identified as probably the quarry connected t...
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Quarry Scene

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posing standing near and on a rock face with two sets of small railroad tracks behind them. Identified as probably the quar...

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