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Agricultural Extension Crew(?) Touring Iowa and Missouri

Date: 1913
Description: Group portrait of men, women and children posing for an impromptu portrait near a passenger train. The photograph was taken on a stop during an Internation...
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Crowd Watching Agricultural Extension Alfalfa Lecture

Date: 1913
Description: Farm children, families and other onlookers watch an alfalfa series lecture by J.H. Skinner of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department....
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Children at Work and Play in Schoolyard

Date: 1917
Description: Boys working in a garden while smaller children dance in a circle on the grounds of Middlefield No. 2 Consolidated School in Ostego County. Teachers are lo...
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Delivery of 4-H Accounting Award

Date: 05 20 1936
Description: 4-H County Agent Ray Aune delivers a McCormick-Deering cream separator to Miss Luella Pagel. Ms. Pagel was the winner of the state 4-H Accounting Award. Pi...
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Filming a "Home Economics" Scene

Date: 1925
Description: Mr. Hyde and Miss Wigent filming a woman and child while the woman is filling pails with water from a hand-pump. The original caption reads: "Taking footag...
Book or Pamphlet

Tuberculosis Must Go

Date: 05 25 1928
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Includes the text: ...
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Group Gathered at Farming Exhibition

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of group of people gathered in outdoor pavilion for an exhibition or fair. Truck in the foreground has a sign that reads: "Kansas State Agric...
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Group Seated on Lawn for Supper

Date: 06 1913
Description: Group of International Harvester Agricultural Extension speakers seated on a lawn for supper. Original caption reads: "This picture shows part of the Alfal...
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Children Testing Corn

Date: 1917
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...
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Canning Club Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1914
Description: Lula Tunisson using an El Flo hot water canner to give a presentation to the men, women, and children of a canning club.
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Canning Demonstration

Date: 1915
Description: Mrs. Turner conducts an outdoor canning demonstration for a group of children, men, and women.
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Testing Seed Corn

Date: 1915
Description: Helen Thomas leans over papers on a desk in a classroom, reading the test of her father's seed corn. Another girl stands on the left, writing on a chalkboa...
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Montgomery State Normal School

Date: 03 03 1915
Description: A large group of African American children stand with a sign reading: "Diversification of Livestock in Alabama" in front of the Montgomery State Normal Sch...
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School Meeting

Date: 03 06 1915
Description: A group of children and adults gathered on the steps at Western Alabama Agricultural School to listen as Miss Zella Wigent presents on the subject of lives...
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Group at Alabama Barbecue Pit

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children gathered around an outdoor barbecue pit as meat roasts. The barbecue took place at Louis Frank Sessions' farm during a ...
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Professor C.W. Farr Teaching Agricultural Course

Date: 02 10 1915
Description: Professor C.W. Farr standing on an elevated platform at the front of a classroom at the Burrell School while presenting on the subject of agricultural dive...
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Girls' Canning Club

Date: 1915
Description: Mrs. Marie Cromer Zigler, left, assisting a group of girls as they gather around a table to participate in a girls' Canning Club.
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Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Group of children in a large school garden working on their crops.
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Teacher Explaining "Rag Doll" Test

Date: 1913
Description: Teacher explaining seed germination test ("rag doll" test) to her students. Original caption reads: "Mrs. Agnes Ryan Page explaining the Rag Doll Test to h...
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Students Harvesting Carrots from School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Group of students working in Woodlawn School Garden. Mr. O.M. Plummer receiving carrots from a student.

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