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YWCA Patio

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Description: Four African-American women read and enjoy the outdoor patio at the YWCA. The brick patio area features a small garden with a birdbath.
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Children in the Garden

Date: 1928
Description: Two girls and a boy pose holding flowers in the garden of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. The boy grips the gnomon of the sundial. The girl on the ...
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Sunken Garden

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Description: View down boulevards and a street. On the right, stairs lead downward toward a sunken garden. Men gather near parked automobiles. Founded in 1905, the Heer...
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Urban Garden

Date: 1918
Description: A man is using a garden plow to cultivate an urban garden located near a row of commercial brick buildings.
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Attic Angel Home and Garden Tour

Date: 05 28 1954
Description: Martha Hart and her daughter Abigail sitting on a wall in their garden at 1208 Bowdoin Road in Shorewood Hills. The Hart home and garden is included in the...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Sprouters

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with children raking, spading, and posing alongside a yard with newly planted seeds (Neig...
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Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Pertzborn Girls

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Alice, Rachel, and Barbara Pertzborn posing by their garden in the front corner of ...
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Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Catherine LaBruzzo

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner of the Best Garden competition in the Junior Girls category, Catherine L...
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Otto and Mathilda Hammer

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Description: Otto and Mathilda Hammer in their large garden outside their home. Otto Hammer helped build the first sawmill in Hillsburo in 1855.
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Ullrich Home

Date: 1902
Description: The Ullrich family standing in a garden in front of their home.
Postcard

Bernard Schoeneman Homestead

Date: 1920
Description: Former Bernard Schoeneman (b. 1826; d. 1904) homestead. View from garden towards the brick farmhouse, where seven people, women and children, are posing on...
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Woman Driving Tractor

Date: 04 09 1917
Description: Miss Josephine Huddleston seated on the big IHC tractor at the plowing of the first tract of land at Harrison and Jefferson Streets for Chicago's City Gard...

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