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Ruins of Cyclone

Date: 08 07 1924
Description: The aftermath of a killer tornado, including an arrow and caption that reads: "William Berg Killed Here." In the background near the farmhouse are a group ...
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

The Universal Food Chopper

Date: 1899
Description: A reproduction of an ad or counter card for the Universal Food Chopper. Text on the image reads, "The Universal Food Chopper, and a few of the things it ch...
Photograph

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...
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...
Print

Eugene's Menu

Date: 
Description: Front cover and back insert page from Eugene's restaurant in the Juneau Hotel, with an orange lobster holding a blue card in its tail with images of a stee...
Print

Northern Pacific Railway Breakfast Menu Exterior

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Description: Breakfast menu from the Northern Pacific Railway, with three identical crowing roosters placed on a diagonal down the page, and printed in red, yellow, and...
Photograph

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...
Print

Rohde's Steak House Football Luncheon Menu Interior

Date: 1964
Description: Interior of the Rohde's Steak House special football luncheon menu, with spot illustrations of football players in action, and featured items on the menu (...
Poster

Enlisted for Duration of The War

Date: 1916
Description: "Enlisted for Duration of The War. Help The National Egg Collection for the Wounded." Poster of a chicken wearing a red leg band and a sash with a symbol o...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Advertising Cuts — Everything for the Dairy, Poultry Fence

Date: 1913
Description: Features at the top an illustration of a cream separator, churn and pail. Cut reads: "Everything for the Dairy." The bottom illustration shows chickens beh...
Print

Deere & Co. Advertising Card

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Description: Advertising card for Deere & Co. "Largest Plow Manfactory, in the World." Features an illustration of a stalk of wheat on the left, partially framing a sce...
Photograph

Altrusa Club Country Fair

Date: 05 09 1961
Description: A woman standing beside chickens in the hen house on the Elizabeth McCoy Syene Road farm before it was transformed into a gift shop for the Altrusa club's ...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Foldout Card — Inside

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Description: Foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. This scene depicts a young boy in a farmyard playing a flute while sitting on the side of a water ...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Fold-Out Card — Inside

Date: 
Description: Front of foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. This scene depicts a young girl standing on an upturned basket feeding chickens with feed...
Book or Pamphlet

Massey-Harris Company Catalog Covers

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back cover of binder catalog. The front cover has a color illustration of a young boy making a crude drawing on a wall of a horse-drawn binder wi...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover featuring an illustration of a man and a woman relaxing on a porch. In the background on the right a team of horses are harnessed to a Milwauke...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of an unidentified family group, including a man, woman, girl, and infant posing sitting in the yard in front of a wooden house with...
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.

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