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| Date: | 09 09 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men with scythes stand in front of a sorghum patch planted on May 20th, 1895. The view was taken near Osceola. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks. |
| Date: | 04 23 1937 |
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| Description: | Man in an apron, composing metal type to be printed. The man may have been a worker at the Harvester Press. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two men standing near the open doorway of a shed while using a hand-operated knife grinder to sharpen a sickle bar or blade. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of men gathered to test soil for acidity. Original caption reads: "This picture was taken in Dupage County during the Alfalfa Campaign in 1913, showi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Group of young women, probably students, assembling wooden nail boxes and benches in a classroom. |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | Group of several women, probably rural school teachers, assembling wood projects, including benches, while others are learning to tie rope. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | View of a teacher watching over a group of male students as they practice woodwork at benches inside a classroom. The text on the blackboard hanging on the... |
| Date: | 05 1915 |
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| Description: | Mae Gribbon uses a soldering tool to seal tin cans in a home canning operation. |
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| Description: | Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman, possibly Anna Neary, gathering pieces of chopped wood in her arms as she kneels near a wood pile on the A.E. Bancroft farm. |
| Date: | 04 1927 |
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| Description: | Person's hands cutting the legs off a recently plucked chicken with pruning shears. A can of Sterno is in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Boys use various tools to make fly traps in a classroom. A man, probably their instructor, stands in the background in front of a chalkboard. |
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| Description: | View of the interior of a blacksmith's shop. The blacksmith is shoeing a horse along the brick wall on the left. Horseshoes hang from rafters of the open ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A man is crouching next to a killed deer in a forest clearing. His rifle is leaning against a log. The man is lifting one of the deer's legs with one hand ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the New London Fire Department posing around their fire engine. They are wearing firefighting gear, coats, boots, helmets and tools in th... |
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