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Group Portrait of Mother and Children in front of Sod Farmhouse

Date: 1905
Description: View of farm woman and her two children posing in front of sod farmhouse on poor plot of land. The woman is sitting in a chair near the open front door. A ...
Photograph

Hop House

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of a hop house built in about 1868 by H.J. Meyer.
Photograph

Chicken Farm and Coops in Farmyard

Date: 1905
Description: View of farmyard with a flock of chickens and several chicken coops in foreground. A farmhouse is in the background.
Photograph

Seminole Family

Date: 1904
Description: A large Seminole Native American family posed outdoors as a group, including men, women and children who are all wearing Seminole native clothing. There ar...
Photograph

Girl with Chick

Date: 1905
Description: A young girl holds a small chick as a woman and Forest Middleton look on. A hen is in the background and a second chick is between Forest and the woman. Ki...
Photograph

Women and Children Posing in front of House

Date: 1900
Description: A boy and a girl are sitting on a bench in front of a house near Cypress trees. A woman wearing a white dress is standing behind them. The girl is holding ...
Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...
Photograph

Chickens Feeding on a Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Large group of chickens eating on a low wooden platform set on the ground.
Photograph

Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...
Photograph

William Krause Homestead

Date: 07 06 1902
Description: Art, William, Minnie, Clara, and Henry Krause standing in front of the William Krause homestead on Boomer Street.
Photograph

State Street Looking North

Date: 1909
Description: View down tree-lined street with a bridge at the far end. There is a large house with a balcony and wrap-around porch on the other side of the road. A floc...
Print

Six O'Clock Club Dinner Menu/Program

Date: 11 19 1900
Description: Front cover of the program for a Six O'Clock Club dinner, with a man in a pastoral setting wearing a chef's hat and an apron, reading a Thanksgiving procla...
Photograph

Women and Children Cleaning Fish

Date: 1903
Description: Florentina, Sarah, Mary, Edgar, and Jennie Krueger are sitting in front of a small building cleaning fish. Florentina and Sarah are scaling fish, while Mar...
Photograph

Feeding Chickens

Date: 1902
Description: Mary Krueger standing in the chicken coop feeding the chickens. Adult chickens and young chicks are standing around her feet eating the feed.
Postcard

Feeding the Chicken and Geese

Date: 1900
Description: An unidentified woman standing near a shed is feeding chickens and geese in the barnyard.
Photograph

Chickens (or Ducks) and Coop

Date: 1900
Description: Chickens and chicks, (or ducks and ducklings) in an enclosure near a coop. Small trees are planted inside the fences holding the ducks. There are other far...
Photograph

Separator Unfolded for Use

Date: 05 21 1909
Description: Separator, unfolded, set up outdoors near a farm building. A belt is stretched out on the ground near the separator, perhaps for driving the machinery.
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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