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Photograph

Filming a "Home Economics" Scene

Date: 1925
Description: Mr. Hyde and Miss Wigent filming a woman and child while the woman is filling pails with water from a hand-pump. The original caption reads: "Taking footag...
Photograph

Family of Fifteen by House

Date: 1872
Description: An extended family of fifteen stands in front of a wood frame house. On the left a man holds a black horse, and to the right of the doorway a woman sits at...
Photograph

Woman Ringing Bell

Date: 1918
Description: A woman standing on a porch is shielding her eyes from the sun as she is ringing a bell (dinner bell?). A child is standing next to her under a clothesline...
Painting

The Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Cranberry harvesters at work. Mural painting in the U.S. Post Office at Berlin, Wis.
Book or Pamphlet

Massey-Harris Company Catalog Covers

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back cover of binder catalog. The front cover has a color illustration of a young boy making a crude drawing on a wall of a horse-drawn binder wi...
Photograph

Shirley and a Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1932
Description: Shirley Krueger standing next to an outdoor decorated Christmas tree. Several of her presents are placed at the base of the tree.
Photograph

Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Duane, Ann Denise, and Bruce Kirking gaze at the "family candles" on top of the melodeon which has been in Grandmother Bayles' family for six generations. ...

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