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Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well

Date: 04 1923
Description: A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background.
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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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Woman Draws Water from Well

Date: 1920
Description: Farm woman operating a McCormick-Deering portable gasoline engine. The engine is driving a pump to draw water from a well into a homemade trough. Another w...
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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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Extended Family of Lars Davidson Reque in front Yard

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Description: View across bare ground towards a large extended family of 26 people who are sitting and standing along a fence in the front yard of a wood frame house; La...
Painting

A Winter Day

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Description: On the right, the farmer in his sheepskin coat drives a horse-drawn sled loaded with milk cans to the cheese factory. A blanket is covering the cans to pre...
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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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Woman with Firewood

Date: 07 1923
Description: A woman moving a box of firewood inside a farmhouse. A teakettle is standing on a stove to the left.
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Woman Cooking

Date: 07 1923
Description: Mrs. John Esche using a woodburning stove marked "Home Comfort" while preparing food. A crate holding firewood is to the right of the stove.
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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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Woman Moving Wood Box

Date: 06 1923
Description: A woman moving a box of firewood from the corner of the kitchen on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. A woodburning stove is the right.
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Gathering on Back Porch of Farm

Date: 1922
Description: The back porch and the nearby wood pile, on the John Esch farm. There are two men, two women and a dog on the porch.
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Farm Home of August Krueger

Date: 09 05 1895
Description: View across road of the log buildings and farm home of August Krueger. Two women and three men stand near the fence along the road. One of the men holds a ...
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Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...
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Fire on Schwertz Farm

Date: 04 30 1997
Description: "At the fire on the opposite page [Page 26], this 3/4 full, 500 gallon propane tank exploded and was propelled 1/2 mile to this location on the Jim & Donna...
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The Heritage Farm after the Tornado

Date: 09 21 1931
Description: View of damaged farmhouse and group of people sitting and standing outdoors. The roof was blown off and windows were shattered. Four women stand in the yar...
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Ruins of Cyclone — William Brace Farm

Date: 08 07 1924
Description: View across yard of a storm-damaged farmhouse. In the foreground is an overturned automobile. The windows of the house have been blown out and the roof has...
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Group at Ed Kearns

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of seven adults and nine children, including two infants, posing sitting and standing under a tree near the open door of a two-story wood fr...

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