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Teacher and Classmates Ready to Pick Seed Corn

Date: 1917
Description: A group of boys from the Walkenhorst School holding fabric bags while posing in a field with their instructor on their way to select seed corn.
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Making Germination Boxes and Corn Racks

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers using tools to make wooden germination boxes and corn racks outdoors in front of what is possibly a school building.
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
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Pleasant View Rural School

Date: 1917
Description: Exterior view of Pleasant View Rural School. There are several automobiles parked behind the building.
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Presentation at Pleasant View School

Date: 1917
Description: A group of men and women gathered inside Pleasant View Rural School to listen to an agricultural extension presentation given by Professor Holden.
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Lesson at Mount Prospect High School

Date: 1917
Description: View from the back of a classroom towards a teacher holding an ear of corn while standing near a chalkboard which reads: "Mt. Prospect Twp. High School, Mt...
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Student Testing Corn

Date: 1917
Description: A boy at Mount Prospect High School testing corn as part of the Cook County School Home Project.
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Children Testing Corn

Date: 1917
Description: A group of children from Mount Prospect High School standing around a table in a classroom to conduct corn testing while their instructor is looking on fro...
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Titan 10-20 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Rear view of man on Titan 10-20 Tractor. The stencils are on the back of the tractor. In the background is a field, and what appears to be a factory.
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International 8-16 Tractor with Plow

Date: 1917
Description: A group of female agriculture students at San Fernando High pose on an International 8-16 tractor. Stenciling is on the front of the tractor.
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Men with DeGraff Village Union School Buses

Date: 1917
Description: Three men stand next to International Model F (or 31) buses parked along the side of a street. Two men are sitting in the driver's sseat of two of the buse...
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Pit Silo

Date: 1917
Description: View of a silo readied for winter storage with straw held against the outer walls with wire netting.
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Moving Silage

Date: 1917
Description: A derrick is moving a box full of silage from a pit silo on an International Harvester Company farm.
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Men Searching through Dumped Potatoes

Date: 1917
Description: Two men picking through bushels of potatoes that have been dumped from a freight train. The men are scouring for potatoes that are still good. Original cap...
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Potatoes at Chicago Dump

Date: 1917
Description: Thousands of potatoes dumped from a freight train along a rail embankment. There is a cow in the background foraging. Original caption reads, "Many thousan...
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Irrigation Ditch

Date: 1917
Description: Irrigation ditch with a silo and farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Silo Special Trip; irrigation ditch, Mrs. Carolin...
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Young Man Pitching Manure

Date: 1917
Description: Young man outside a barn pitching piles of manure. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Silo Special Trip. Manure, J.A. Butler."
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Sod House

Date: 1917
Description: Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Special Trip: Oldest sod house in Platte Valley, 1886, H.W. Roberts."
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Men and Automobiles at Train Station

Date: 1917
Description: Group of men walking alongside train cars and a line of automobiles at a train station. The men are likely gathered for an event on the "Union Pacific Silo...
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Boy Scouts and Troop Leader

Date: 1917
Description: Group of Boy Scouts standing outdoors in uniform with a troop leader and an American flag. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Spe...

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