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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Men cutting and gathering grain by hand. One man appears to be holding a scythe, or possibly a cradle. |
| Date: | 07 18 1927 |
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| Description: | A man pouring mixed concrete into a wheelbarrow. The cement mixer is powered by a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 h.p. stationary engine. |
| Date: | 10 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men using a Farmall Regular tractor, a farm wagon, and a lime spreader to spread lime in a field. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market. |
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| Description: | Sheriff Fred Simon and unidentified man in the process of destroying slot machines. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two men are using a belt-powered hay baler or hay press in a farm field. |
| Date: | 08 1930 |
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| Description: | A man using a shovel and a litter carrier on a track system to clean the gutter of a dairy barn at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. Th... |
| Date: | 10 1930 |
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| Description: | A man standing on the back of a McCormick-Deering manure spreader to pour superphosphate over manure at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental far... |
| Date: | 04 1930 |
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| Description: | A man is using a shovel to load a McCormick-Deering manure spreader pulled by two horses. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A man and woman (possibly husband and wife) maintain a residential backyard. The man, wearing a bow tie, is mowing the lawn with a reel mower, while the wo... |
| Date: | 05 1915 |
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| Description: | Mae Gribbon uses a soldering tool to seal tin cans in a home canning operation. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A table with built-in cabinets and shelf space standing in the middle of a farmhouse kitchen, next to a wooden chair to the left and a stove and ovens to t... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman filling a bucket with water from an indoor well pump while standing at a kitchen sink. A mirror is hanging on the wall and a potted plant, canister... |
| Date: | 03 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Class of children gathered outdoors around a table for a corn germination lesson. Original caption reads: "after the rag dolls are prepared they are immers... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Class of girls and teacher running a seed germination test ("rag-doll" test) in the classroom. The class is standing around a table, and are using a pail t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Young man outside a barn pitching piles of manure. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Silo Special Trip. Manure, J.A. Butler." |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Woman working in kitchen straining jelly bags over pot in preparation for canning. The photograph was taken at an "IHC Farm," probably in Hinsdale, Illinoi... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn. |
| Date: | 07 23 1926 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a person's slicing a plate of canned meatloaf. Original can and can opener are on the table next to the food. |
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