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Woman at Entrance of Grass Hut in Mexico

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: View across yard towards a woman standing at the open door of a grass hut. There are chickens around her in the yard, and inside the hut.
Photograph

Recreational Therapy Puppets

Date: 1948
Description: Thirteen puppets, representing a mixture of human and animal shapes, hang by their strings. A caption on the rear of the image identifies them as recreatio...
Photograph

Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Mrs. Arthur Straight washing dishes in her rural home with pet hen "Minnie" on her shoulder.
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Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Pet hen "Millie" riding in the front seat with Mrs. Arthur Straight as she drives the family truck.
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Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Fourteen-month-old Charles Straight, playing in his wooden crib with the family pet hen "Minnie" by tugging on the tail, in their rural home. The walls are...
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Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Fourteen-month-old Charles Straight is holding an egg laid by the family pet chicken "Millie" that is sitting in a cardboard box.
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Pet Rooster

Date: 04 23 1957
Description: Barbara Scholidon posing with her 1-year-old pet rooster. She had brought the chicken home from a Lapham School project that hatched twelve chicks from an ...
Photograph

TD-24 — Road Building

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man working on building a road. In the background is a dog, and farm buildings. Subject: "TD-24 — Road Building." Where Taken: "MW." Informa...
Postcard

Mrs. E.C. Barney Residence After the Cyclone, Oct 10, 1913

Date: 10 10 1913
Description: View towards a tornado-damaged home with most of the roof missing and a collapsed barn. A chicken is in the yard. Captions read: "Barn" and "Mrs. E.C. Barn...
Drawing

Filling Haymow with Thresher

Date: 08 25 1928
Description: View across barnyard towards men using a thresher near a barn. A tractor in the yard on the left is belt-driving the thresher to fill the haymow. There is ...
Photograph

Cha-Cha-Cha

Date: 1961
Description: A Prairie Chicken performing his Booming Dance.
Photograph

Barnyard Monarch

Date: 1975
Description: View across water towards a rooster perching in a barn window, looking over his domain.
Postcard

Easter Greetings

Date: 1915
Description: Easter postcard with a well-dressed rooster, with arms instead of wings, carrying a cane and an Easter Egg on a ribbon. He is wearing a jacket with a pussy...
Postcard

A Joyous Easter

Date: 1908
Description: Easter postcard with two yellow chicks in a nest surrounded by Forget Me Nots. The nest is on the grass and a sprig of Pussy Willows is behind them. Text o...
Photograph

Man Feeding Chickens

Date: 1907
Description: View of a man kneeling next to a small chicken coop. He is holding a container of food, and two chickens are standing in it. The rest of the flock of chick...
Photograph

Boy Feeding Chickens

Date: 1907
Description: View of a boy standing barefoot outside a farm building holding a container. A flock of chickens surrounds him. In the background is a fence, fields, and a...

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