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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. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men on a raft. The man in the foreground is sitting and peeling potatoes. The young man splitting wood is Ashley Bennett, son of ... |
| Date: | 08 30 1963 |
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| Description: | Closely timed cooking and quick serving are the secret of a successful fish boil. A heavy iron bar is inserted in the basket of potatoes and onions to remo... |
| Date: | 09 16 1918 |
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| Description: | Food being prepared on a moving kitchen for soldiers fighting in Sainte-Mihiel, France. |
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| Description: | Wide angle view of the interior of a bakery, with one man standing by the oven on the right and another man standing near the center between racks of bread... |
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| Description: | A young woman and a very tall man stand together in front of the cookhouse wagon. She is holding a bottle of soda and offering him a hotdog; he has his arm... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Cooks prepare food on a large iron stove while a worker stands holding coffee. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car fer... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Wilbur Seed Meal Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturer of horse, cattle, poultry, and egg food, hoof packing, and various animal re... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the E.R. Godfrey & Sons Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a red belt with a silver buckle across the top left. Examples of the company's ... |
| Date: | 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Dogs in a car being fed ice cream cones by a man standing on the sidewalk and a woman sitting inside the car. The car is a Rambler Custom. Across the stree... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke... |
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| Description: | Group of men and one boy posed sitting on benches on either side of a long table for a meal in an open-sided tent on the banks of a river. In the backgroun... |
| 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: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a white chef cap and a suit and tie, is either placing trays of food on a cart, or taking them off for a Pan American World Airways Boeing 74... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Food tray for a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 in-flight meal. The tray has silverware, a coffee cup, and assorted food items. There is also a napki... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Two male food service employees preparing trays of food laid out on a table for a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 in-flight meal. A woman is standing... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A woman, identified as Tracy, friend of Rob McNamara and supporter of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), wears headphones and eats. Behind h... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Front cover and first page of a menu from a railroad dining car, with a woman in long robes carrying a tray with a steaming dish of food. A border of fruit... |
| Date: | 09 13 1911 |
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| Description: | Middle front outer panel and tri-fold menu from The Gargoyle, with a gargoyle sitting atop the framed illustration of the entryway of the restaurant and a ... |
| Date: | 09 1887 |
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| Description: | Lunch menu from the souvenir booklet of the Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents, with an embossed knife, fork, and spoon crossed o... |
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