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Packing Eggs for Hatching

Date: 1914
Description: Overhead view of six baskets, showing how eggs intended for hatching would be packed in layers of excelsior. A cloth would be sewed on top of the basket.
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Truck with Stake Body

Date: 06 18 1927
Description: Right side view of a truck with a stake body parked in front of a building. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and the sign painted on the passenger do...
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Fleet of Delivery Trucks

Date: 06 18 1927
Description: Three men are sitting in the cab of three delivery trucks which are parked at an angle in front of the Grinnell Poulty & Egg Co.
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Prairie Chicken on Nest

Date: 06 23 1930
Description: The written description on the reverse of this photograph reads: "Prairie chicken incubating her eggs in a nest located 5 miles southwest of Plainfield." S...
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Prairie Chicken and Eggs

Date: 06 27 1930
Description: A prairie chicken hen is seen in profile near her nest with its clutch of eggs. On the reverse of the print is written: "The bird has stopped to carefully ...
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Sorting Eggs

Date: 1939
Description: A technician wearing a white tunic is standing near a table holding a partially filled tray of eggs. There are four racks holding additional trays. Bushel ...
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We Saw You . . . Coming Out at the Matthews Hatchery

Date: 03 24 1954
Description: Chick newly hatched from its egg at the Matthews Hatchery, Rural Route 2, in Madison.
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Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Fourteen-month-old Charles Straight is holding an egg laid by the family pet chicken "Millie" that is sitting in a cardboard box.
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Coloring Easter eggs at their kitchen table are Sherry Svee, age 8, with her mother, Melba Svee, and father Kenneth Svee who is executive director of the M...
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Section of Breaking Room

Date: 1937
Description: Long white gowns cover the street clothing of women at work separating egg yolks and whites into glass cups in the egg-breaking room of the Northern Wiscon...
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Easter Baskets for Child Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 04 05 1958
Description: Three members of the Alpha Xi chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority delivered Easter baskets to the young tuberculosis patients at the Morningside sanato...

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