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| Date: | 04 1917 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Young John Bollenbach standing in the middle of a garden, identified as his "Cook County school-home project." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Children and two women, possibly a school group, work with hand tools in an urban garden. An elevated railroad is in the background, along with the Acme St... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of children and women standing in what is probably a "war garden" in an urban area. Several commercial buildings are in the background, one painted... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A man, two women, and two girls stand outside a gas station and automotive repair shop. The shop features a sign that reads, "Free crankcase service." |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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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| Description: | View from street of the Standard Oil filling station with Red Crown gasoline pumps. Two attendants are standing near an entrance with a sign for a postal t... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The grounds at Springhill Cottages, with four cottages on the hill in the background. There is a person sitting on a chair inside an open-sided building in... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Seven women posed in yard. A woman, Ida Lund, sits in a rocking chair on the left, three more, Maude Riley; Maggie Riley; Lydia Mader, pose sitting in a ha... |
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| Description: | Red Cross soup kitchen with a crowd at the entrance. For 10 pfennigs one can obtain a hearty lunch. |
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| Description: | East Prussian refugees in the Zoological Gardens. |
| Date: | 07 13 1928 |
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| 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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| Description: | Group portrait of men, women and children standing in a field behind a fence. A sign on a post reads: "Community Garden, Cook County, Dist. 124." Hand-tint... |
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| Description: | A group of boys are standing on a sidewalk around a small garden of flowers. Behind them is a fence along a city street. On the other side of the street ar... |
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| Description: | Two boys and a girl are standing at bins set up in a field. They are sorting fruit or vegetables. A sign on the ground in the front reads: "Cook County Sch... |
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| Description: | A boy and girl are standing around a cart loaded with vegetables, next to a sign that reads: "Community Garden, Cook County, Dist. 124." Hand-tinted lanter... |
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| Description: | View of a boy standing in a field holding vegetables that look like eggplants. A dog is standing in the foreground, and a sign posted in the field reads: "... |
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| Description: | Two girls, each wearing white dresses, are posing outdoors in a garden. At their feet is a box of produce (tomatoes?), and they are leaning on a sign which... |
| Date: | 10 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Judy Schroeder, 919 Spaight Street, is shown at the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, 330 E. Lakeside Street, pharmaceutical garden. Schroeder, a society... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Main View and Builder, Rev. P.J. Wagner, Grotto Shrine, Rudolph, Wisconsin." A rock and flower shrine with a statue of Jesus in a nic... |
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