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| Date: | 09 17 1961 |
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| Description: | A broken down, abandoned log shack on the Stockbridge Indian Reservation. |
| Date: | 08 18 1963 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an abandoned "Bonus" gasoline station. This station was formerly a Wadham's Oil and Grease Company station. The Wadham's chain, headquarte... |
| Date: | 08 18 1963 |
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| Description: | View of the porch of a vacant at 535 10th Avenue with grain elevators in the background. This particular group of grain elevators were called "Tanktown." |
| Date: | 11 03 1963 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of two abandoned stock yard buildings. Between the buildings is the unused loading chute. |
| Date: | 09 01 1963 |
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| Description: | A view of an abandoned log cabin obscured by plants and trees. |
| Date: | 06 09 1963 |
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| Description: | View of a dilapidated outbuilding and a windmill on an abandoned farm. |
| Date: | 09 04 1967 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 04 1967 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a barn with stone foundation and a cement silo. In the foreground are overgrown shrubs and grass. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Pile of manure outside the door of a crudely built farm building. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A man holding a bundle of logs is opening the screen door on a farmhouse with a deteriorating front porch. |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A refuse pile consisting of glass, a broken basket, bottles, cans, and other items behind a farmhouse. A crumbling foundation is in the background. |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| 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:... |
| Date: | 10 30 1917 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an abandoned district school building with a small shed or outhouse standing nearby. |
| Date: | 03 22 1912 |
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| Description: | Two young girls standing with their arms around each other in the debris-strewn yard of a run-down home. The original caption identifies the location as th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from cobblestone street of a woman wearing a skirt and head scarf moving a barrel of discarded vegetables in an alley. Probably taken near an outdoor ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of a vacant lot littered with garbage and weeds in a residential area. Across the street in the background are what appears to be a row of apartment b... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Interior view down a hallway at the Courtland Hotel. The walls are covered with peeling wallpaper and the floor is made of patterned tile. The hotel was us... |
| Date: | 10 1930 |
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| 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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