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Barn Raising

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Description: Barn raising. The foundation is constructed from local fieldstone or "pudding stone," found in the nearby fields. A large group of men are is posing holdin...
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Family in Carriages with Barn

Date: 1878
Description: Barnyard, with what appears to be a pigyard littered with corncobs. It is enclosed with a solid board fence and has slop troughs made from hollowed logs. A...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Shooting the Shoots (without Carrots)

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Shooting the Shoots." A small girl is sliding down a wooden plank, whic...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Shooting the Shoots (with Carrots)

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of children playing on giant carrots. Two girls are sliding down a giant carrot while a third is climbing up the steps to get to the top of th...
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People Posing in front of Wooden Building

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Description: Group portrait of five men, and a woman holding a baby, standing in front of a large, two-story wooden building, possibly a farm implement or feed store. A...
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Group of People Posing in front of House

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Description: View from road of three men, three women, and three girls posing standing by the gate in a picket fence that is in front of a frame house. One woman is hol...
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People in Yard Outside Frame House

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Description: Three women and a girl walking in a yard in front of a frame house. Two young girls are sitting in the long grass, and a baby is in a rocker. There is an i...
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August Carrying His Granddaughter

Date: 05 1932
Description: Alexander Krueger carrying Shirley Krueger in a hand woven basket supported by a neck yoke. A barn is in the background.

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