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| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A child sits on a rotten wooden well covering while playing in the mud with a piece of metal and holding a can marked "Salted Pecans." An automobile is in ... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of a sink installed in a corner in a washroom at School #9. A mirror, towel rack, framed picture, and a row of mugs hang from walls surrounding the si... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Exeter Inn with guests dining outdoors under trees. Built in 1932, the hotel's Georgian facade features a doorway and an awning under which tab... |
| Date: | 05 1924 |
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| Description: | Helen Holden using a pair of tongs to remove a can of chicken from a metal container on Holden Poultry Farm. |
| Date: | 06 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Bernard Arms (standing), uncle of Lewis Arms, shares a picnic with his neighbors Mr. and Mrs. (Betsy) Nofsinger. |
| Date: | 05 1926 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a beaded dress and necklace is sitting at a table to eat canned corn and peaches. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A covered pot with a thermometer, can sealer, and stacks of metal cans stand on a table beside a stove in a kitchen near a window. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a woman's hands holding the wire handles of a wooden rack made for holding jars during canning. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of several solder sealers set against a white backdrop. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A brother and sister use an Eau Claire steam pressure machine to run their canning business. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A metal sanitary garbage pail attaches underneath the kitchen sink and pipes at the farmhouse of Miss Lella Gaddis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John Bowers removing a plate of food from the dumbwaiter in her Benton County farmhouse. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere using a Maytag wringer and two metal rinsing buckets to wash clothing on the International Harvester demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and apron is using an "Easy Model H" wringer washing machine made by the Syracuse Washer Corporation. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A girl wearing a dress and "Mary-Jane" shoes walking across the cement stair landing of the farmhouse entrance at International Harvester's demonstration f... |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman mixing food in a pot heated on an electric plate. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A table with built-in cabinets and shelf space standing in the middle of a farmhouse kitchen, next to a wooden chair to the left and a stove and ovens to t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Pots, kitchen utensils, and two irons sitting on the stove of a wood-burning oven. A framed painting and a dustpan hang on the wall in the background. |
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