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Mother Feeding Infant

Date: 09 01 1971
Description: A young mother feeds her infant baby food outdoors.
Photograph

Making Dolls

Date: 07 17 1957
Description: A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth.
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Quitting Time

Date: 08 25 1967
Description: Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure.
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Corn and Brats on the Grill

Date: 06 25 1988
Description: St. Dominic's Catholic Parish members tend the grills at their annual festival.
Print

Weary Woman

Date: 1873
Description: Engraving of a woman sitting in a chair with light from an attic window shining on her face. Next to her is a rumpled bed and a pull-toy overturned on the ...
Photograph

Sucker Monocle

Date: 12 28 1962
Description: Jean Meyer plays with the sucker she got at a mother-daugher Christmas holiday tea.
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Teeter Totter

Date: 09 12 1971
Description: Children fashioned their seesaw using a board, and a barricade with a sign that reads: "Road Closed" that they found in an empty lot.
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1897
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Plano Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers, headers, reapers, and hay rakes. The cover fea...
Photograph

Polo Players

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Description: Polo horses take graceful strides as two players vie to hit the ball at Joy Farms.
Photograph

Sun Dip

Date: 07 08 1988
Description: Two women lifeguards sun themselves at the edge of Horeb Park pool during a rotation break.
Photograph

Home Workshop

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Description: A man cuts a block of wood on a table saw in his workshop.
Photograph

Cook Out

Date: 09 07 1963
Description: Husband and wife prepare meal on top of a campfire grill.
Photograph

Circus Group

Date: 1892
Description: A large group of circus performers and personnel, including a clown and band members, pose in front of a tent.
Photograph

Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus in New York

Date: 04 04 1934
Description: Three rings of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus are shown being set up for a performance in New York's Madison Square Garden.
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Golfing near Belmont Avenue and outer Lake Shore Drive

Date: 1933
Description: Woman playing golf at Sydney R. Marovitz(?) golf course near Belmont Avenue. The Chicago skyline is in the background.
Photograph

Circus Performers with Mule

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Description: A male circus performer stands lengthwise on the back of a mule, while a female circus performer stands on the ground next to them.
Photograph

Deer Hunters at Harshaw

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Description: A group of men pose with guns and deer carcasses on the railroad platform at Harshaw.
Photograph

Star Bar and Grill Room

Date: 04 10 1942
Description: Friday night at the Star Bar and Grill Room, at the intersection of Highways 41 and 43 in Kenosha County.
Photograph

Man in Diving Suit

Date: 08 06 1914
Description: A man wearing a diving suit stands on a ladder coming out of a body of water (possibly the Chicago River). A sign in the background reads, "Dredge". The ma...
Photograph

The Old Mill

Date: 1956
Description: View across water of the Old Mill surrounded by trees and water. Water is coming out of an opening in an archway of the mill. On the left automobiles are p...

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