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Woman Throwing Out Wash Water

Date: 1925
Description: Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse.
Poster

International Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for International engines. Includes illustrations of the engines' farm uses, including pumping water, washing clothes, and operating a c...
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Woman Cleaning Kerosene Lamps

Date: 1925
Description: Woman cleaning kerosene lamps on the front porch(?) of her house.
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The Tea Party

Date: 1925
Description: Girl pouring tea.
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Chippewa Woman Making Baskets

Date: 1925
Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman preparing splints for basket making. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the fir...
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Mrs. Endres Feeding Chickens

Date: 1925
Description: Mrs. John Endres feeding the chickens in the farmyard with her dog.
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Horse-Powered Saw

Date: 1925
Description: Photographic illustration of two men cutting wood with a saw powered by horses on a treadmill. The horses and treadmill were added by an artist's drawing.
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Canning Equipment

Date: 1925
Description: A covered pot with a thermometer, can sealer, and stacks of metal cans stand on a table beside a stove in a kitchen near a window.
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Woman Washing Clothing

Date: 1925
Description: A woman wearing a dress and apron is using an "Easy Model H" wringer washing machine made by the Syracuse Washer Corporation.
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Girl Near Farmhouse

Date: 1925
Description: A girl wearing a dress and "Mary-Jane" shoes walking across the cement stair landing of the farmhouse entrance at International Harvester's demonstration f...
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Sleeping Porch

Date: 1925
Description: Four beds line either side of the sleeping porch at the farmhouse of J.E. Joyce. A telephone is hanging on the wall and striped curtains are covering the o...
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Family of Five Eating Meal

Date: 1925
Description: A family with three children sitting around a dining table while eating a meal. The walls of the dining room are covered with wallpaper and decorated with ...
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Young Girl Cooling Canned Corn

Date: 1925
Description: Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn.
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Bird's-Eye View of Coon Valley

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Coon Valley from a hilltop. Trees are on either side of the frame. In the city, there is a cemetery, church, and field of crops.
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Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1925
Description: View of Coon Valley. Tall plants cover the lower portion of the frame. The landscape is includes homes, fields, and hills.
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Canning Chicken at Holden's Farm

Date: 1925
Description: Two women working at P.G. Holden's Farm canning chicken. On the table there is canning equipment, chicken, and open cans.
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School Exhibit

Date: 1925
Description: An autumn exhibit and fair has been set up in the Centerville School. A post supports streamers which extend to the walls, and examples of needlework and c...
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Ladies at Tea

Date: 1925
Description: Group of ladies at an outdoor tea during "homecoming." Behind the woman on the left is a large spinning wheel. An American Flag is standing on the lawn in ...
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Caid Belaïd Dining

Date: 1925
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide showing an Caid Belaïd, Tuareg interpreter for Alonzo Pond's 1925 Algerian expedition, sitting on pillows and rugs on the floor ...

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