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| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Rural school teachers using tools to make wooden germination boxes and corn racks outdoors in front of what is possibly a school building. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Pleasant View Rural School. There are several automobiles parked behind the building. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women gathered inside Pleasant View Rural School to listen to an agricultural extension presentation given by Professor Holden. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A boy at Mount Prospect High School testing corn as part of the Cook County School Home Project. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three Confederate veterans sitting in a tent at the National Confederate Reunion. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Newspaper clipping of an article about Wausau banks. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View of a silo readied for winter storage with straw held against the outer walls with wire netting. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A derrick is moving a box full of silage from a pit silo on an International Harvester Company farm. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down center of the downtown business district, with several people walking on the sidewalk past storefronts. Automobiles are parked at an angle along ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | War Savings Stamps poster featuring an eagle crushing enemy planes. At the top of the poster is written: "Keep Him Free" and at the bottom: "Buy War Saving... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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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