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Post Mistresss at Post Office

Date: 1917
Description: Elizabeth Lathrop, Post Mistress, stands with a dog and other people in front of the Post Office. There is a shoreline on the left.
Photograph

Farmer's Market

Date: 1917
Description: Exterior view of the Municipal Market, which was built in 1910 but not operated successfully until July 1917 when it was run by a group of women from the D...
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Pull Power Hay Press Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester. Shows pull power hay presses featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers ...
Photograph

Oil Transportation

Date: 1917
Description: Man standing on snow-covered ground with an International Model G truck and horse-drawn wagon at an oil depot. Handwritten captions on the photo mark "the ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Tillage Implements Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick tillage implements. Features an illustration of a farmer in a field with a horse-drawn disk harrow.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Streetcar

Date: 1917
Description: Mrs. Howie standing beside a horse-drawn streetcar of the Covington Line. The car is manned by a conductor.
Photograph

Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1917
Description: A farmer is using a large team of mules and horses to pull a harvester-thresher (combine) through a field.
Print

Horse-Power Cartoon

Date: 1917
Description: Cartoon illustrating "the layman's idea of how horse-power is determined." The cartoon shows an automobile in a "tug-of-war" with a large number of horses.
Photograph

Bijou Theater

Date: 1917
Description: Theater with many signs, one of which is advertising a matinee. Several other buildings are visible to the left of the building. A large crowd of people ...
Photograph

Jenk on Pony

Date: 1917
Description: Jenkin Lloyd Jones sits on a pony calmed by his mother, Georgia Lloyd Jones. His younger sister, Florence (Bis) is in the background.
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Lloyd Jones Children with Their Dog

Date: 1917
Description: Dick, Florence (Bis), and Jenkin Lloyd Jones sitting on the grass with their dog, Blig, a Belgian Shepherd.
Photograph

Group of People in Farmyard

Date: 1917
Description: A group of people under a tree in a farmyard, with possibly a lake in the background. Two women, with heavy netting on their hats, hold luggage. A toddler ...
Photograph

International Model G Truck Parked near Storefront

Date: 1917
Description: Two men are sitting in an International model "G" truck, parked next to a curb. Three men are standing against a storefront on the left. At the back of the...
Book or Pamphlet

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Date: 1917
Description: Cover design of a pamphlet of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), "an urgent call to real men from the imperial palace" in Atlanta, Ga., Col. W. J. Simm...
Photograph

Men Working on Husker and Shredder

Date: 1917
Description: A man is standing on a wagon loaded with corn stalks while another man is operating a husker-shredder.
Photograph

Clam Fishing

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view of six men on the shore of a river, with piles of clam shells inside loose wooden fences near a pile of firewood and an axe. The firewood may...
Photograph

Valda Valkyrien, publicity still with shark

Date: 1917
Description: Valda Valkyrien wears a very smart vertically striped dress under a dark double-breasted jacket. Apparently she has just caught a shark on a Florida beach....
Photograph

Irene Castle in Scottish Highland Costume Holding a Dog

Date: 1917
Description: Waist-up portrait of Irene Castle holding one of her small Belgian Griffon dogs.
Photograph

Lou Tellegen, Geraldine Farrar, and Two Dogs

Date: 1917
Description: Lou Tellegen, Dutch-born actor, and Geraldine Farrar, American operatic soprano and silent film actress, and two canine friends. Tellegen and Farrar were m...

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