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Children on Homemade Swing

Date: 06 1927
Description: Young boy and a toddler relaxing on a homemade tree swing made with an automobile seat.
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126 Langdon Street

Date: 1900
Description: Wintertime exterior view of 126 Langdon Street, home of J. Howard Palmer and his wife Alice Mears Palmer.
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Wright Flyer in England

Date: 1938
Description: After his "mistaken" trans-Atlantic flight to Great Britain, Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan visited the original 1903 Wright Flyer then on display at the Sci...
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Man Reads Magazine to Young Child

Date: 08 1925
Description: Mr. Wolfe sitting in a chair reading Successful Farming magazine to a young child on his lap.
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Man and Girl Milking Cow Outdoors

Date: 05 1924
Description: A man and a little girl milking a cow with a pail at Cutten Farms. A note with the original print reads: "Tuberculosis Must Go (Cover)." This was the title...
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Farmer Milking Cow

Date: 03 1924
Description: Man sitting on a crate milking a cow by hand inside a barn on the farm of Hal Ament.
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Woman Drawing Water from Well

Date: 05 1923
Description: Miss Neary drawing a bucket of water from a well next to a farmhouse. The original caption reads: "Drawing water from well. Miss Neary posing. Mr. Hyde pho...
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Residential Neighborhood near Mountain

Date: 01 06 1919
Description: Residential neighborhood. Caption reads: "Building Site East". Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed in t...
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Flooded Rural Road in Alabama

Date: 03 05 1915
Description: Three men are driving on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "In going from Fairhope, Ala. to Point Clear, Ala. the road in many places was found...
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Flooded Road in Rural Alabama

Date: 02 13 1915
Description: Two men traveling in a horse-drawn wagon on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "Example of road building in Lamar County on the Vernon-Columbus ...
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Cornelius Wheeler

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Description: Portrait of Cornelius Wheeler of Portage, who served in Company I, 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
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Clara Bewick Colby and Group

Date: 06 1913
Description: Clara Bewick Colby posing with a large group of women in Vienna.
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Group Outside of House

Date: 1876
Description: Twenty-eight people and one dog are posed in the yard of a wood frame house. A lap dog is sitting on a chair balanced on top of a fence post. A woman at th...
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Allen E. Adsit with Father Stephen Adsit

Date: 1873
Description: Allen E. Adsit is in the left foreground in this photograph and his father, Stephen Adsit, is seated at right. Seen near the house are a wooden rain barrel...
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Family in Yard around Table

Date: 1878
Description: Family in yard around table, and a man standing with tool on the right. Behind the group is a Greek Revival house that has a sewing machine on the porch. T...
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Men in Yard and on Porch

Date: 1871
Description: Four men and woman near large frame house with carpenter's lace and latticework at bottom of a frame house; house has two doors, one with glass trim, gable...
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Men Pose in front of Large House

Date: 1872
Description: Four men pose before a large frame house with carpenter's lace on its porch, a bracket style roof, one gable with a window with a fan shaped ornament, two ...
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Man Tipping his Hat on Porch

Date: 1878
Description: Greek revival frame house with Doric columns. A man is standing on the porch tipping his hat. A woman is sitting on the porch, and a woman is standing on a...
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People in Carriage near Fence

Date: 1869
Description: People in carriage in front of picket fence, wagons and people behind; large frame house with parapet roof, Corinthian porch columns, brackets at roof; car...
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Family around Tables Set for Coffee

Date: 1874
Description: Family in front yard around two tables set for coffee, tea and perhaps some other beverage. Frame house in back has a sign for grass seed from Whitewater o...

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