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Outhouse behind Farmhouse

Date: 04 1923
Description: An outhouse without a door during the winter. The outhouse is situated under a tree behind a farmhouse.
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Home Economics — Farm Home and Yard

Date: 05 1925
Description: Farm house and yard "showing farmyard equipment too close to the front porch." The yard contains a stationary engine, saw, lumber, and homemade buildings.
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Farmer Pouring Milk for Son

Date: 03 1924
Description: Farmer Hal Ament pouring milk from a pail into a glass for his young son as they stand at the gate of their farmhouse.
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Bull Along Roadside

Date: 08 1929
Description: Bull standing along a rural road with farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Better tether him out than for him not to get pasture."
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Calves in Pasture

Date: 08 1929
Description: Young dairy cows feeding in a clover pasture with farm buildings in the background.
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Man on Ladder Repairing Farm Building

Date: 1925
Description: R.A. Hayne on a ladder repairing a barn door.
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Farm Family and Farm

Date: 1889
Description: A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ...
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Family on Wrap-Around Porch

Date: 1873
Description: A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston...
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Zula Belle Walker with Poultry Flock

Date: 1917
Description: Six year-old Zula Belle Walker of McDonald Chapel, Jefferson County, feeding her mongrel flock of poultry.
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Dairy Herd of S.L. Brewster

Date: 02 14 1915
Description: Slightly elevated view of the dairy herd of S.L. Brewster, standing in an enclosure outside a barn.
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Hill Crest Farm Auto Truck

Date: 1915
Description: A man is sitting behind the wheel of a truck used on Hill Crest Farm for carrying dairy and farm products to market. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Spraying Potatoes with Pesticide

Date: 06 1923
Description: Men using the "big sprayer" to apply pesticide to garden potatoes at R.R. Robertson's farm.
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Men Working with a Feed Grinder

Date: 04 24 1924
Description: Two young men working with a feed grinder on Claus Johnson's farm.
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Plowing with a 10-20 Tractor

Date: 04 1923
Description: A farmer using a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to plow a field on the J.W. Esch farm.
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Corn Crib

Date: 04 1923
Description: Corn crib on a farm.
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Loading Corn with a Corn Elevator

Date: 10 1922
Description: A farmer loading corn into a barn using a corn elevator. He is loading corn onto the elevator from a horse-drawn wagon.
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Feeding Hogs

Date: 06 1928
Description: John Hannon feeding corn to hogs in a pen on the IHC Experimental Farm.
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Refilling a Silo

Date: 02 22 1927
Description: Two men are refilling a silo using a silo filler at the IHC Experimental Farm.
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Field with Tree Stumps

Date: 07 1930
Description: Stump-studded field with farm buildings in the background.
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Farmer with Side Delivery Hay Rake

Date: 08 25 1927
Description: A man, possibly N.B. Frankensteen, operating a horse-drawn side delivery hay rake on the N.B. Frankensteen Ridgebrook Farm. Farm buildings are in the backg...

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