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| Description: | A man poses while selling chickens on the street. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him. |
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| Description: | The chicken farm of Alfred Ruf on State Highway 3. |
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| Description: | An unidentified man (Myles Horton?) using an axe to cut off a chicken's head. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Mosher family standing in front of the J.F. Mosher residence. From the left are J.F. Mosher, daughters Celia Belle, Rhoda Adelaide, and Bertha May, son Her... |
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| Description: | Possibly an anniversary group portrait of the couple seated in the center, with four people posed on each side of them. The women in the center holds flowe... |
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| Description: | Threshing day in the fields at the Quinney family farm. View includes, two workers, a tractor powering the thresher, a horse-drawn cart full of straw, a t... |
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| Description: | View of a thatched roof cock pit located in a fenced-in area and surrounded by trees. Published by Variety Store. |
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| Description: | View of a family posing near their farmhouse and animals. One woman rides a horse-drawn Bain-Wagon, from Bain works, established in 1882. A man stands in f... |
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| Description: | Woman using a dasher churn to make butter. She is seated on the stoop of a house and a young girl watches behind her. |
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| Description: | A woman stands in the yard petting and scratching a chicken perched on a stump. She is wearing a dress and has a barrette in her hair. In the background is... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "A water faucet located at the top of the hill (the upper end of the alley) behind the boy is used by eleven families, 28 people, who live in the buildings... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Harvey Lein, 13, poses with a flock of chickens near a barn. He is wearing a cap and bib overalls and is carrying a bucket. There are bushes blooming in ... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| 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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