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Research Products Display Window

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: Research Products Company display window at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store, featuring Filter-Fry frying pan cover and E Z Kleen air filters. 17 South ...
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Harold F. McCormick Family and Friends

Date: 1922
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Harold Fowler McCormick family, friends and servants at Walnut Grove. Left to right (seated): Kathleen (Mrs. Rush) Searson, F...
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McCormick Works Employees at Lunch

Date: 1905
Description: Factory workers eating lunch outside International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company before 19...
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Research Products Filter Fry Window Display

Date: 08 27 1952
Description: Window display at C.C. Collins and Son, Inc., 2398 University Avenue, featuring "Filter Fry," a filter cover for frying pans made by Research Products Comp...
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Grain Elevator

Date: 1992
Description: Grain Elevator at the intersection of Highway 64 and Five Points Road in DeKalb County.
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Elevated View from Division and East Water Streets

Date: 1901
Description: Elevated view looking northwest from Division Street and East Water Street. Rooftop of building in foreground has laundry hanging from a line. In the back...
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Small Garden with Men Working in Background

Date: 1941
Description: A small backyard garden is in the foreground near what appears to be a house. Men are working next to two trucks and a crane in the background.
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Unkempt Backyard

Date: 07 1923
Description: Rags, discarded shoes, empty bottles and food cans littering the space surrounding a rear entrance to a farmhouse.
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Gas-Powered Water Pump

Date: 10 1923
Description: A woman using a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to pump water into a metal bucket outside a building at International Harvester's Hinsdale experime...
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Fly Trap

Date: 1924
Description: A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden.
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Woman on Farmhouse Porch

Date: 1920
Description: A woman wearing a dress and apron washes her hands in a metal bucket set on a table on a farmhouse porch. Multiple metal pails with handles and a milk pail...
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Picnic by a River

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Description: Four men and seven women are posing sitting and standing around a picnic on the edge of a river, with a man standing on a bridge in the background. The fir...
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Boy Sitting on Front of Truck Eating Ice Cream Cone

Date: 1977
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 ...
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Emergency Mass Feeding Demonstration

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: Four people demonstrate how old oil drums cut in half can be used to wash dishes as part of an emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instructi...
Postcard

Chipping Wood on the Farm

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Description: An early wood chipper with belts and a steam engine is closely watched by the William Fiebelkorn farm workers. The postcard is addressed to Anna Fiebelkorn...
Postcard

Making Barrel Staves

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Description: Behind a barbed wire fence a man is splitting log rounds into barrel staves. The staves are stacked neatly to dry.
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Scout Camper

Date: 1962
Description: Woman cooking in the back of a Scout set up as a deluxe camper with kitchen.
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Three Men at McCormick-Deering Cream Separators Display

Date: 11 04 1926
Description: Three men are standing outdoors near a platform displaying McCormick-Deering Primrose ball-bearing cream separators. Two of the men are eating popcorn, and...
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Two Men Camping with Scout and Trailer

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Description: Two men are cooking at a campfire. Behind them is a parked Scout truck which has a trailer attached to the back. Two rifles are leaning against the side of...

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