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School Boys Raising a Garden

Date: 04 18 1917
Description: Young boys digging a garden in an urban setting on "Mowhawk Street near Larrabee." Original caption reads: "Newberry School boys who have gotten into the h...
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Boys at Work on Urban Garden

Date: 04 18 1917
Description: Boys from the Newberry School and Boys' Club No. 2 work on ground loaned by the Board of Education for a city garden.
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Women Gardening

Date: 1920
Description: Group portrait of women wearing wide-brimmed hats standing outdoors while holding hoes and a garden plow in what appears to be a city garden. Several build...
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Children Gardening

Date: 1920
Description: Boys and girls working to plant and tend to a garden surrounded by buildings and fences in what appears to be an urban area. The location is likely a schoo...
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Children Gardening

Date: 1920
Description: Children working in garden. One child is pulling beets, while another child is digging up potatoes with a hoe. Another child is sitting in a wheelbarrow lo...
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Group Working in Garden

Date: 1920
Description: Children and two women, possibly a school group, work with hand tools in an urban garden. An elevated railroad is in the background, along with the Acme St...
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Group of Children in Garden

Date: 1918
Description: A group of children and women standing in what is probably a "war garden" in an urban area. Several commercial buildings are in the background, one painted...
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Woman Hoeing in Garden

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Description: A woman wearing a checkered dress uses a hoe in a small garden plot. Trees, shrubs, and an open field can be seen in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Tractor and Trailer Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering Tractors and Trailers. Includes a photograph of men loading brush or shrubs into a trailer hitched t...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Sprouters

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with children raking, spading, and posing alongside a yard with newly planted seeds (Neig...
Photograph

Lorena Feldmann

Date: 1931
Description: Lorena Feldmann, 13, hoes in the garden at her family's farm. She is somewhat overdressed for the task in a light coat, white stockings and dress shoes. A ...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Advertising Cuts — Lawn Mowers, Farm & Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Features at the top an illustration of a woman standing holding a lawn mower. Cut reads: "Lawn Mowers and Lawn Swings." The bottom illustration shows a wom...
Photograph

Backyard at the Beginning of June

Date: 06 01 2015
Description: Elevated view of a woman, Solveig Quinney, pushing a wheelbarrow in her yard. Stepping stones in the lawn ring a garden plot. Other flowering bushes and pl...
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Girls and Boys Working in Garden

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Description: A group of girls and boys are working in a garden. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Man Working in Garden

Date: 10 1906
Description: View towards a man working in a garden. In the background are trees, and in the distance are buildings.

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