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Harrison Street Community Garden

Date: 04 1917
Description: Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ...
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Man in West Pullman Works' Com munity Garden

Date: 07 1932
Description: Man bending over to pick vegetables in the West Pullman Works' community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International ...
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Boys at Work on Urban Garden

Date: 04 18 1917
Description: Boys from the Newberry School and Boys' Club No. 2 work on ground loaned by the Board of Education for a city garden.
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Central Park Officers' House

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Description: A view of seven men reading and relaxing on the rooftop garden of the Central Park Officers' House. The men sit on outdoor furniture, and behind them, buil...
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West Side Garden Club Garden Show

Date: 05 27 1952
Description: Garden show and tea at which the West Side Garden club entertained other garden clubs of the Madison area. Six children at the junior section of the show ...
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Taliesin I Courtyard

Date: 1912
Description: Taliesin I courtyard from the "brow" of the hill looking toward the entry loggia. A young girl on a horse is talking to a young boy under the porte-cochere...
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Flower Garden

Date: 1931
Description: A woman sits and reads on a wooden slat bench in a flower garden. There are ornamental plants in a wash tub and other containers; a rose bush nearly covers...
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Japanese Apiary

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Description: Apiary in Japan, with light snow on the ground and a man standing on the right near a small building. Experimental apiary on the northeastern part of the m...
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Woman Carrying Clothes Basket on her Head

Date: 05 1902
Description: Florence Christian carrying the cleaned laundry of Paul C. Goetsch in a large basket on her head while walking barefoot through a garden.
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Jennie Krueger in the Garden

Date: 07 1903
Description: Outdoor portrait of Jennie Krueger standing along a garden fence next to a building holding flowers in her left hand. Her hat, decorated with ribbons and f...
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Group Portrait of Unidentified People at a Picnic

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a group having a picnic in a garden. Women and children are sitting around blankets on the ground, and women and men are standing...
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Castor Bean Plant Towers Over Barbara Culver, Age 11

Date: 08 27 1965
Description: Barbara Culver (11), 1123 Edgehill Drive admiring a 10-foot tall castor bean plant planted by Mrs. Carl Dutton, 1101 Edgehill Drive.
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Tea Garden Card with Sid Boyum in Costume

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Description: Christmas card by Sid of himself standing in his backyard in the tea garden. Boyum, in grey kimono and straw conical hat and holding a small wooden keg, is...
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Red Cross Soup Kitchen

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Description: Red Cross soup kitchen in Berlin on the Moritzplatz.
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Red Cross Soup Kitchen

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Description: Red Cross soup kitchen in Berlin on the Moritzplatz.
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East Prussian Refugees

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Description: East Prussian refugees in the Zoological Gardens.
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Russian Internees in the Berlin Zoo

Date: 1914
Description: A group of refugees posing for a group portrait in the courtyard of the Berlin zoo.
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Man Driving International Truck

Date: 07 13 1928
Description: Three-quarter view from front of a man driving a truck down a street. The sign on the driver's side door reads: "Kansas City Journal Post." Two signs on po...
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Residential Urban Garden

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Description: Men and women are strolling and conversing in a public garden. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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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...

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