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| Date: | 02 13 1915 |
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| Description: | African-American man and woman on the front porch of a rural home. The unidentified woman is retrieving water from a well, and the man, J.R. Dean, is sitti... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A Curtiss hydroaeroplane tied down prior to a test flight over San Diego Bay. Two unidentified pilots rest on the dock in the shade of its wing. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | The Senate Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol in a quiet moment. Although the senate met in its new chamber in January 1913, much of the marble work on... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings across Lake Mendota from Carroll Street. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red), a boathouse, an... |
| Date: | 07 14 1938 |
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| Description: | Minutes after finishing their record-breaking flight around the world (in 7 hours and 28 minutes), Howard Hughes and the four aviators who flew with him we... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A young man sitting at a table buttering a slice of bread. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Bathroom with tub, sink, mirror, and toilet in a house on the Harvester Farm. |
| Date: | 05 1925 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Miss Marilla Zearing reading a newspaper on a rocking chair in the screened porch of her home. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agric... |
| Date: | 09 20 1923 |
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| Description: | Alexander Legge (1866-1933) with a pitchfork full of hay at a Thresher demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm. Men are milling around a t... |
| Date: | 02 23 1915 |
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| Description: | Mrs. James M. Baker in her winter garden picking turnips. Original caption reads: "She was pulling some winter turnips which behind her were multiplying. I... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Beeson tending to lettuce and onions in his winter garden. Original caption reads: "These vegetables have been under cultivation all winter and have be... |
| Date: | 03 1924 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| 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." |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | Young dairy cows feeding in a clover pasture with farm buildings in the background. |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | Cows drinking water from a tank in a rural pasture. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning kerosene lamps on the front porch(?) of her house. |
| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no impr... |
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