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Brigham Farm Building in Ruin

Date: 06 1925
Description: View of three farm buildings - the one in the center is collapsing.
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Abandoned Stock Yard Buildings

Date: 11 03 1963
Description: Exterior view of two abandoned stock yard buildings. Between the buildings is the unused loading chute.
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Abandonded Farm with Windmill

Date: 06 09 1963
Description: View of a dilapidated outbuilding and a windmill on an abandoned farm.
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Abandoned Farm with Overgrown Yard

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: An abandoned farm with overgrown foliage. In the background is a farmhouse. The doorway is detailed with decorative pilasters or engaged columns flanking t...
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Barn and Silo

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: Rear view of a barn with stone foundation and a cement silo. In the foreground are overgrown shrubs and grass.
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Manure Outside Farm Building

Date: 1911
Description: Pile of manure outside the door of a crudely built farm building.
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Sloping Porch

Date: 03 1926
Description: A man holding a bundle of logs is opening the screen door on a farmhouse with a deteriorating front porch.
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Leaning Shed

Date: 03 1926
Description: Exterior view of a deteriorating wooden shed surrounded by an animal shelter, farm equipment, and other farm buildings. The painted sign on the shed reads:...
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Farm Home with Dilapidated Yard

Date: 1924
Description: Exterior view of a farmhouse, windmill, and an adjacent barn, all standing in a dilapidated yard. A partially collapsed fence is in the foreground, and wha...
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Rundown Farm Buildings

Date: 10 1930
Description: View across a road and field of several rundown farm buildings located near a farmhouse. The image was used to illustre: "poor farm buildings."
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Farm Buildings Near Rochelle

Date: 04 28 1925
Description: View across a rural road of farm buildings in a state of disrepair.
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Ramshackle Farm Buildings

Date: 04 06 1926
Description: View across road of a deteriorating barn and a few sheds. In the background is a young child standing in the yard of a farmhouse. Original caption reads, "...
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Deteriorated Farm Building

Date: 1915
Description: Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar...
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Typical Home Abandoned in Site I

Date: 05 17 1935
Description: View of an abandoned home and barn behind a post fence.
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Abandoned Barn

Date: 1960
Description: Exterior view of a barn on an abandoned farm.
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Abandoned Farm

Date: 1960
Description: Abandoned farm along Highway 51.
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Tree-Veiled Farm

Date: 05 10 1960
Description: View through the trees of an abandoned farm.
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Unhealthy Cow

Date: 1915
Description: Unhealthy cow in weed-grown farmyard with dilapidated buildings. Image part of the International Harvester Co. Educational Extension Project.
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Windmill

Date: 1993
Description: An old and worn windmill standing in a field. Overgrown shrubs are climbing up the base of the windmill. A road and farm buildings are in the far distance....
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Farm in Ruins on Cherry Valley Road

Date: 1993
Description: View over fence and field towards a dilapidated barn leaning against a silo. A tractor and a piece of agricultural machinery are parked in the field, and i...

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