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Family Camping Trip in Mountain Field

Date: 1977
Description: Color advertising photograph of a family setting up a tent in mountain field near a small lake. An International Traveler pickup with simulated vinyl roof,...
Photograph

Tschirren Family Having Lunch in the Field

Date: 1958
Description: Men, women, and children of the Tschirren family having lunch on a wagon in their field. The Tschirrens had a farm in Niedermuhlern, Switzerland.
Photograph

Mountain Home

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Description: Group portrait of a man, a woman and seven children standing in front of a log cabin. The caption reads: "A Typical Mountain Home in Kentucky."
Postcard

The Return From the Alps

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Description: Color postcard of a Swiss farmer returning home with his animals. Many of the animals, and five of the shepherds, are labeled with a name. The path loops b...
Photograph

Pack Train for the Mines

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Description: View of a family posed before a pack train, heading toward the mines.
Book or Pamphlet

Spearing Fish in Winter

Date: 1884
Description: Small group of Native Americans spearing fish through ice on a river. Mountains can be seen in the background.
Photograph

International Scout Hauling Camper

Date: 1973
Description: View towards lake and mountain with an International Scout hauling a camper parked next to the shoreline. A man, woman, and three children are gathered beh...
Photograph

Costa Rican Family

Date: 1902
Description: A Costa Rican family standing outside their home or farm building along a fence. A pig stands in the foreground with a board tied around its neck sniffing ...
Photograph

Two Men with Farmall M Tractor and No.42 Combine Threshing Alfalfa

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of two men, Grant Porter and L.M. Porter working in a field harvesting seed from 60 of 200 acres in alfalfa. 3200 acre ...
Photograph

El Capitan

Date: 1935
Description: The photographer's wife, Margaret Bouer Brumder, is sitting on a low stone wall at an overlook in Yosemite National Park, with the granite formation El Cap...

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