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| Date: | 07 1967 |
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| Description: | Several young boys selling fruit drinks, penny candy, and snow cones to parched pedestrians. A city bus is in the background. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Family in yard around table, and a man standing with tool on the right. Behind the group is a Greek Revival house that has a sewing machine on the porch. T... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Here Dahl used "The Old Oaken Bucket" motif — a man drinking water from a pail at a well in foreground with family sitting and standing at a table with cof... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Young boy with a rootbeer float moustache standing in the parking lot of a rootbeer stand. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A small crowd outside a large tent that adverstises "Reaper Motion Pictures." The tent is likely part of an International Harvester exhibit at a fair or ag... |
| Date: | 10 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Children and adults gathered in front of the gorilla cages at the Washington Park Zoo to celebrate the fifth adoptive birthday party for Samson and Sambo. ... |
| Date: | 01 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Austin Thorson, winner of a $100 prize in a Lipton Tea Co. jingle contest, also won $1,200 worth of groceries from the Kroger Co. by writing the address of... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A group of children gathers around an International truck modified for use by a public health organization while a woman in a nurse's outfit stands inside.... |
| Date: | 03 08 2002 |
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| Description: | "At Raceway, Vicki, our waitress, joins our group that includes the Hren family, Kay, and her two children Parker and Carly. Vicki, tells us that her grand... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An intersection with townhouse on the left and a hotel on the right. There is a group of people on the porch of the townhouse and a horse and carriage park... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | A five year old boy is sitting on the hood of a truck eating an ice cream cone. The boy is Joel Keith Strickland, and he is wearing denim bib overalls and ... |
| Date: | 06 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Security State Bank presented children with ice cream cones in recognition of June Dairy Month. Leo Lunenschloss, bank president, is looking on as Sarah Ho... |
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| Description: | Feeding the needy in Friedenau-Wilmersdorf at the Kaiserplatz. |
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| Description: | Open air dining for civilians without money in the Friedenau-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin along the the Kaiserplatz. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Refugee camp in Holland near Bergen op Zoom. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the store with a false front. A sign along the porch on the left reads: "Millinery" and a sign in the center reads: "Wm. Dittberner, Merch... |
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