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Boiling Vats at Sugar Mill

Date: 1915
Description: Workers standing beside boiling vats at a sugar mill where the sap is boiled and made into sorghum molasses.
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Horse-Drawn Milwaukee Grain Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea...
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Men Baling Hay

Date: 1915
Description: Men bale hay from a large stack into an IHC hay press or baling press.
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Men with International Motor Baling Press

Date: 1915
Description: Men operating an engine powered hay press, or baling press in a field.
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Mogul 8-16 Tractor with Hay Loader

Date: 1915
Description: Man pulling a wagon and hay loader with a Mogul 8-16 tractor. Another man stands atop the hay in the wagon.
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Men Digging for Future Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Three men breaking ground for a silo.
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Two Men at Silo Construction Site

Date: 1915
Description: One man is using a hand crank to pull a bucket of earth from the bottom of a pit silo. Another man stands behind him.
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Men Working on Construction of Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Men working on the construction site for a new silo. Three men work in a pit to establish the foundation, and three other men work in the background near a...
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Preparation for Pit Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Three men working at a site for a new pit silo on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
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Man Smoothing Walls for Pit Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Man working on the construction of the walls for a pit silo. Original caption reads: "J.G. Haney using gauge for smoothing walls of pit silo."
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Washing Clothes in the Yard

Date: 1915
Description: View across wooded yard towards a woman leaning over a washtub using a washboard and to wash sheets. Sheets are drying on a clothesline and a washtub of bo...
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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...
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Laundry Line

Date: 1915
Description: Clothing hanging on a line to dry in a farm yard. A pot of steaming water is in the foreground. A small open-sided farm building is behind a fence with a g...
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Boy with Pail

Date: 1915
Description: A boy wearing overalls and a straw hat is carrying a metal pail across a barnyard.
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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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Farmhouse with Running Water

Date: 1915
Description: Miss Foy Martin filling a bucket with water from a sink faucet, while her mother is lighting a burner on the stove inside the kitchen of R. Martin.
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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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Agricultural Laborers Posing in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Four agricultural laborers posing in a field. One of the men is sitting on a horse-drawn mower, and the other three men are holding rakes.
Postcard

Telephone Linemen

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of an outdoor group portrait of a telephone line crew. The six men are wearing hats and work clothes, and five of the men are wearing...
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Farmhouse Facade in Early Spring

Date: 1915
Description: View of a house surrounded by trees. Snow is on the ground, and the base of a windmill is on the right near the house.

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