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Frank Smith, Jr.

Date: 1933
Description: Frank Smith, Jr., age 12, feeds chickens on his father's farm. The farmhouse is in the background. Young Smith was a student at the Hillcrest School, Distr...
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Apiary of Elias Fox

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Description: Backyard apiary of Elias Fox. Chickens are in the yard among the numbered beehives. Fox and family are posing standing in the background in front of a fenc...
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Poultry Science

Date: 1925
Description: Group of ten people, both men and women, observing a researcher working in a laboratory with young chickens in a wire cage beneath a lamp. The researcher w...
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Men watching Cock Fight

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from India, Carrie mentions cock fights, describing them as a "barbaric form of entertainment". Here is shown a group of men watching one su...
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Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1940
Description: Gustave Ott (1871-1954) and Anna Ott (1871-1954) feeding a large flock of multi-colored chickens on their farm. Gustave is carrying a kettle and Anna is ho...
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Drying Corn

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified Native American man is standing with his hand on a makeshift work table holding shelled corn spread over a piece of cloth. The table is mad...
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Adda Howie Feeding a Calf

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Description: Adda Howie, wearing a work dress and wide-brimmed hat, is feeding a calf from a bottle outdoors at Sunny Peak Farm. Another calf is standing nearby. Adda a...
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Young Pheasants

Date: 1934
Description: Six young pheasants are clustered in front of a primitive brooder house. There appears to be a black domestic hen among them. There is a pan of grain and a...
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Coxey Army

Date: 1894
Description: Group of men gathered outdoors around a rooster. Tents are in the background. Caption reads: "Coxey Army, with Jack London in lower right hand corner."

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