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McCormick's Blacksmith Shop at Walnut Grove

Date: 1931
Description: Exterior view of the blacksmith shop at Walnut Grove farm where Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) invented and built his first reaper in 1831.
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Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Harold Calder, wearing bib overalls and a cap, poses with his calf, which won second place at the Cambridge Festival in 1931. There are chickens, a small c...
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Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
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Grading the Road

Date: 1931
Description: Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil...
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Gustave A. Schulz House

Date: 1931
Description: Vines cover trellises on two porches of the Schulz house, a large wood frame Victorian farmhouse. There is fretwork in the gables and a band of decorative ...
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Alvin Sebald

Date: 1931
Description: Alvin Sebald, 14, a student at Rhine Center School, poses in front of a tree. He is wearing bib overalls and a necktie. There is a barn and other farm buil...
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Flag Raising

Date: 1931
Description: Two boys display the American flag before raising it on a rustic flag pole in the school yard of the Consolidated School, District No. 4. The other student...

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