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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist and peace advocate, holding an American flag. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A ticket collector for the Milwaukee Electric Railway is sitting at her station. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Log-constructed gazebo and person on bridge in rose garden. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing three photographs of John A. Commons (presumably) in his World War I uniform, standing with another man with a Christmas tree, ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a pedestrian holding an umbrella during a snowstorm, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I "Preparedness Uniform" of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband an... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards men, boys, and a young woman standing on a sidewalk in front of the storefront of M. Liebeler Farm Machinery and Garage. T... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting and preparing string beans for canning. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View over board fence towards three women standing on the porch of a boarding house, possibly in Dayton, Ohio. The porch is adjacent to a yard littered wit... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Man and woman harvesting hemp with an International 8-16 tractor and hemp gathering and bundling machine (binder?). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Volunteers signing up at the Red Cross office in New York to do hospital or other volunteer work. The woman in the white smock and dark hat is Mrs. Belmont... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Red Cross volunteers preparing bandages at a Red Cross office in New York City. The woman standing on the right, who is supervising the work, is Mrs. Belmo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Interior shot of a group of men, women and boys at the Gillette Tire Company. The Gillette Safety Tire Company was founded in Eau Claire in 1916 and the cr... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A woman searching through a burlap sack. Two men are standing beside her on a platform near an urban street market. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Howie standing beside a horse-drawn streetcar of the Covington Line. The car is manned by a conductor. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The office staff of International Harvester's Weber Works are posing beneath an American flag in front of the exterior office door. Weber Works produced wa... |
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