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Woman Carrying Water to Farmhouse

Date: 04 1923
Description: Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter.
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Woman Pumping Water from Farmhouse Well

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Description: Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse.
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Henry Bigalk and Emil Kuney (Keune)

Date: 1906
Description: Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga...
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Farm Family with Implements

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Description: A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ...
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Woman Drawing Water from Well

Date: 05 1923
Description: Miss Neary drawing a bucket of water from a well next to a farmhouse. The original caption reads: "Drawing water from well. Miss Neary posing. Mr. Hyde pho...
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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...
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G. Thompson Family and Domestic Machines

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Description: The G. Thompson family posing in front of their wooden house. One woman is sitting at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another is working at a kn...
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Family in Yard of Farmhouse

Date: 1872
Description: A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in...
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Farm Laborers with Reaper

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Description: A crew of farm laborers take a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman offers food and drinks. They are posed in front of a reaper with the family ...
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G. Thompson Family and Domestic Machines

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Description: The G. Thompson family poses in front of their wooden house. One woman sits at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another works at a knitting machin...
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Farm Family Posing Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin...
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Tom Amlie's Home

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Description: Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, Tom Amilie, and two unknown men at Amlie's home. Taken to illustrate campaign brochure of Amlie talking to "farmer types."
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Men with IHC Motor Press

Date: 09 08 1913
Description: Two men standing on an engine powered hay press loading hay from a large stack. In the background are farm buildings.
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Hauling Manure

Date: 1914
Description: A man is using a shovel to load manure into a wagon pulled by two horses. One of the horses is wearing a turnout blanket marked "IHC."
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Woman Washing Wooden Porch

Date: 04 23 1926
Description: A woman wearing a dress, hat, and stockings uses a mop and bucket to wash a damaged wooden porch attached to a farmhouse.
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Woman Hauling Water

Date: 1920
Description: A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house.
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Girl Using Scissors

Date: 1926
Description: A girl is sitting and leaning on a porch column outdoors while using a scissors to clip something from a newspaper. Taken at International Harvester's Hins...
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Cellar Entrance

Date: 1923
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...
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Young Girl Cooling Canned Corn

Date: 1925
Description: Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn.
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Gas-Powered Water Pump

Date: 10 1923
Description: A woman using a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to pump water into a metal bucket outside a building at International Harvester's Hinsdale experime...

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