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Postcard

Grading Rural Road with Avery Tractor

Date: 1915
Description: Road workers grading a rural country road with an Avery tractor and wooden grading blocks. The image was cropped from a postcard collected by International...
Photograph

Driving Down Muddy Dirt Road

Date: 1915
Description: Man driving an automobile down a muddy dirt road. Caption on back reads: "Grading road with surfacing." The photograph was taken for International Harveste...
Postcard

Range Camp in Camp Douglas

Date: 1915
Description: Entrance to Range Camp. Caption reads: "Entrance to Range Camp, Camp Douglas, Wis."
Photograph

Chicago Stageroad Marker

Date: 1915
Description: View of the Chicago Stageroad marker erected by the local Daughters of the American Revolution.
Photograph

Main Street Park

Date: 1915
Description: View of main street from a city park, including parked cars and store fronts.
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Homes in a Residential District

Date: 1915
Description: Angled view down unpaved road toward a tree-lined street and homes. Streetcar or train rails are along the left, and a cart is on the right. Caption reads:...
Photograph

Men with Wagon Outside Abbey Hotel

Date: 1915
Description: Man seated atop a horse-drawn wagon in the snow outside the "Abbey Hotel." Another man stands on the left near the wagon.
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Country Road

Date: 1915
Description: Low perspective of a dirt country road curving into the distance. The road is bordered by fields and scattered wooden buildings while a solitary figure ap...
Photograph

Mogul 8-16 Tractor with Road Grader

Date: 1915
Description: Man pulls a road grader with a Mogul 8-16 tractor.
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Mogul 8-16 Tractor Pulling Wagons

Date: 1915
Description: Man pulls two large wagons down a rural road with a Mogul 8-16 tractor.
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Prisoners Working

Date: 1915
Description: View down road of a group of prisoners wearing striped jumpsuits doing road work while supervisors look on. A horse-drawn wagon is parked near a fence, and...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Carriage on Dirt Road

Date: 1915
Description: View from roadside of a man and woman riding in a horse-drawn carriage down a dirt road in a wooded area.
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Man with Horse-Drawn Carriage on a Country Road

Date: 1915
Description: View from road of a man wearing a bowler hat driving a horse-drawn carriage down a dirt road. A fence is on the left and buildings are in the background. T...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage on Muddy Road

Date: 1915
Description: A man is driving a horse-drawn carriage down a muddy dirt road. A wooden fence and several buildings are in the background.
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Agricultural Educator on Horseback

Date: 1915
Description: Agricultural Extension lecturer Dr. F.A. Wolfe carrying an educational chart while riding on horseback along a muddy dirt road.
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Convict Laborers

Date: 1915
Description: A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand...
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Forest Middleton and Leonore Judkins

Date: 1915
Description: Forest Middleton and his future wife, Leonore Judkins, sit on the ground against a tree alongside a country road. Grapevines grow on a fence on the right.
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Man on Land Leveler

Date: 1915
Description: Man standing on a grader pulled by a team of mules along a dirt road. Cows, a fence and farm buildings are in the background.
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Woman in Automobile

Date: 1915
Description: A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat sits behind the wheel of a Case automobile with its top folded down. A chicken or rooster stands to the right along the ...
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Fence Post Removal

Date: 1915
Description: A man uses a "handy device for pulling old fence post" (original caption).

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