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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron and holding a bowl is posing on the stairs of a cellar bulkhead on the side of a farmhouse. A bell on a wooden pole is next to the... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View from a street of a man seated on the front porch steps of a house. A picket fence and front walk are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Rags, discarded shoes, empty bottles and food cans littering the space surrounding a rear entrance to a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 10 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A man wearing overalls and a cap is using a saw powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to cut wood on International Harvester's Hinsdale expe... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and wide-brimmed hat is emptying water from one pail into another beside a hand-cranked well. The photograph was taken on the John ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from hill of a farm near a pond. There are homes along the far shoreline, and a lake and hills in the far background. |
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| Description: | View of a woman standing near a tree in the yard with a large spinning wheel. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Two boys holding a pail of water. There is a wagon parked near a building in the background. Original caption reads: "Bringing a pail of warm water for the... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Dayton Pump Products Company of Belgium, Wisconsin, distributor of Dayton Water Systems, with six vignettes of water systems in use: wate... |
| Date: | 05 22 1956 |
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| Description: | Jack L. Savidusky stands in his yard wearing a chef's hat and apron while barbecuing his specialty, "Mexican Barbecued Beef." His son Michael, 11, looks on... |
| Date: | 10 1983 |
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| Description: | "Milton and Adeline Retzlaff show off their bountiful pumpkin harvest." |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Sarah Krueger Bhend feeding kittens in front of a farm building. |
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| Description: | Two women, two men, and two girls standing in front of a wooden house (probably the backyard), near a clothesline with drying wash. Two boys are standing o... |
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| Description: | Large group posed sitting and standing around a long table in front of a two-story frame house, probably the W.T. Murray home at Tenth and Main Streets. |
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| Description: | Group of fifteen women gathered around three tables behind home, probably the DMC Club, an exclusive social and sewing society named for an imported brand ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Jose and Esther Bigalk sitting on tree stumps. |
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