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Barron Coop Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Two men pose at the Barron Coop Creamery next to the churns full of butter, which is ready to be packed into the small barrels nearby.
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Vegetables and Canned Goods

Date: 1920
Description: Storefront display of canned goods and vegetables.
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: Workers are shown cutting sugar cane in the fields near New Orleans. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane In Louisiana."
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Fresh Vegetable Vendors

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Description: Two African American women pose with baskets of fresh vegetables on their heads while selling their produce. A building with an exterior brick chimney is b...
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Men Gather Near Beverage Tent

Date: 1919
Description: A group of men stand at a makeshift bar under a beverage tent where crates from Golden Grain Juice Company and Anheuser-Busch from St. Louis, Missouri, lin...
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International Harvester Engine

Date: 1923
Description: A man uses an International Harvester engine to power a saw. The man is cutting lumber while a child watches from the background.
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Chain O' Lakes Duck Farm

Date: 1939
Description: A man is holding a cleaned duck over the opening of a McCormick-Deering cooler at the Chain O' Lakes Duck Farm. His hat and apron are covered in feathers. ...
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Cream Separator at Farmhouse

Date: 1923
Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch of a farmhouse to look at a McCormick cream separator at the base of the stairs. Nearby a man wearing ove...
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Jorden Prairie Cheese Factory

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Description: Interior view of the Jorden Prairie Cheese Factory showing Swiss cheese presses on a bench.
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Children with Apples

Date: 09 1923
Description: Three girls and a boy posing for a group portrait in an apple orchard. Two of the girls, possibly twins, are sitting in bushel baskets on either side of a ...
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Cutting Off Chicken Legs

Date: 04 1927
Description: Person's hands cutting the legs off a recently plucked chicken with pruning shears. A can of Sterno is in the background.
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Temporary Packing Shelter for Berries

Date: 08 1923
Description: Makeshift shelter for packing fruit, in particular berries. Original caption reads, "a temporary packing shelter for a blackberry patch. Note handled carri...
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Woman Using Cream Separator

Date: 10 1923
Description: A woman using a cheesecloth to strain the contents of a bucket into a cream separator at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester Fa...
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Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
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Farm Produce Delivery Truck

Date: 03 22 1925
Description: A man unloads a bushel basket of fruits and vegetables from the back of a Model S International truck owned by Louis Tauco. The man is making deliveries in...
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Orchard Sprayer

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor through an orchard as another man stands on an orchard sprayer while applying what is probably pesticide ...
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Ripe Pumpkin Field

Date: 09 27 1895
Description: In the cornfield of Jas. E. Seed, a number of large, yellow "Yankee" pumpkins ripen on vines. A man is crouched in the field, holding a pumpkin in his arms...
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Thayer Fruit and Vegetable Farm

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: Men displaying produce, a large cabbage and a bushel of potatoes, while standing in the gardens of the Thayer farm. Cabbage, onion, currant, and raspberry ...
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Starch Factory

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Elevated view of wagons filled with potatoes parked near a starch factory. In 1895, 125,000 bushels of potatoes were converted into starch. Railroad tracks...
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Ephraim Watts Home

Date: 08 02 1895
Description: Ephraim Watt, his wife Rhoda Adelaide Watt (née Mosher), and their daughter, Glendora Eunice Watt, pose in front of their log home, 14 miles southwest of F...

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