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Two Girls Standing in Yard

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Description: View across lawn towards two girls standing at the corner of a brick building. There is a large building in the background. One of the girls appears to be ...
Book or Pamphlet

Boy Standing in Garden

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a boy standing in a backyard garden. Another boy is standing behind him on the other side of a fence. There is a chicken standing...
Photograph

Young Child Holding Chickens

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Description: A young child is standing outdoors, holding one chicken under their left arm, and holding another chicken by the legs in their right hand. Caption reads: "...
Photograph

Young Girl and Boy with Chickens

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Description: A young girl and boy are sitting on the steps of the porch of a house. two chickens are standing between them. Large, potted flowers and ferns are near the...
Photograph

Young Man in Pen with Chickens

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Description: A young man is standing inside a pen with a flock of chickens. A sign on a tree inside the pen reads: "Member Cook County School Poultry Club." Hand-tinted...
Photograph

Rooster

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Description: Studio portrait of a rooster standing on a prop stone wall. Lantern slide.
Photograph

Young Child Feeding Chickens

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Description: A young child is standing in a chicken pen feeding the chickens. The chicken house is in the background, and a house and other buildings are in the far bac...
Photograph

Young Man Feeding Chickens

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Description: A young man wearing overalls is feeding chickens. There is a fence and a barn in the background. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
Photograph

Children with Chickens

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Description: A group of children are sitting and standing in the grass with a group of chickens. There are two baskets on the grass, filled with unknown objects. Hand-t...
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

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."
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.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Disk Harrows

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Description: View towards four men, each one with two-horse teams pulling disk harrows. Behind the teams is a barn with a sign that reads: "1900, F. Dixon, Orchard Grov...
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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