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Man Delivers Lecture on Tuberculosis in front of Church

Date: 04 1924
Description: Man appearing to deliver a lecture on tuberculosis prepared by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. The man is pointing to an "agri...
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Farm Hazard: Matches near Automobiles

Date: 06 1927
Description: Staged scene of a man looking into an automobile radiator with a match in hand. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extens...
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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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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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Farm Hazard: Chopping Wood

Date: 1926
Description: A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood.
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Two Men Sifting Compost for a Garden

Date: 06 1923
Description: Two men sifting compost soil through a screen.
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Working with a Compost Pile

Date: 06 1923
Description: A man cutting down a compost pile with a shovel.
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Water Pump at Bartlett Hills Country Club

Date: 07 10 1928
Description: Two men use a Fairway tractor to power a water pump at Bartlett Hills Country Club. The pump appears to be filling an irrigation trough.
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Tractor with Street Broom

Date: 05 02 1933
Description: An International industrial tractor with a street sweeping attachment sweeping the roads at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair.
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Industrial Tractor with Duplex Grader

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: A man stands while operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor and an International duplex grader to smooth a rural dirt road. The original capt...
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P&H 5-Ton Monorail Hoist and Track over Body of Water

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist and track running over a body of water presumably to load a boat with lumber from a lumber yard. There is a ma...
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P&H 5-Ton Monorail Hoist Handling Lumber

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with lumber handling unit on a loading dock, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. There is a man in the cab, as wel...
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P&H 5-Ton Monorail Hoist Loading Barge

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi...
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Twin Silos

Date: 10 1923
Description: A man is filling one of two silos near a barn with silage from nearby wagon on the Babson Farm. A tractor in the foreground is used to power what appears t...
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International Bus

Date: 1932
Description: Man in driver's seat of an International bus parked in front of a building with a tower.
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 11 11 1925
Description: Rear view of a man operating a horse-drawn mower in a field.
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Alfred Lunt Weeding the Garden

Date: 1946
Description: Alfred Lunt pulling weeds in the cornfield at Ten Chimneys.
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Wedding at Black Point

Date: 06 13 1953
Description: Claire Chapin, granddaughter of Clara Seipp Bartholomay, with her husband, William Frederick Carr, on their wedding day at Black Point Estate. Geneva Lake ...
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Page 7 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "The birthday cake and its creators, Feb. 8, 1921." Caption for photograph at bottom re...

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