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Woman Canning in Kitchen

Date: 1915
Description: A woman is using a towel to remove a can from a stove top pressure boiler. Additional cans are sitting on the counter beside her, and the boiler lid and o...
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Woman Canning

Date: 1926
Description: A woman wearing an apron is removing a wire rack filled with glass canning jars from a boiler on a Coleman Pressure Range on International Harvester's Hins...
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Farm Family Eating Dinner

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Description: Mother, father, and seven children seated at a kitchen table eating dinner.
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Farms Hazards: Children on Machinery

Date: 1926
Description: A child on a Farmall tractor. The original caption warns of the danger of children "fooling with levers on running machinery." This photo was taken for Int...
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Two Boys with a Pail of Water

Date: 1913
Description: Two boys holding a pail of water. There is a wagon parked near a building in the background. Original caption reads: "Bringing a pail of warm water for the...
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Farm Buildings: Concrete Block Milkhouse

Date: 1924
Description: A woman and her dog standing at the doorway of a concrete block milk house.
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Canning Peaches

Date: 07 23 1926
Description: Woman at the Harvester Farm in the process of canning peaches. She is placing the peaches in a cold dip after scalding.
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Teenagers with Vegetables

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Description: A young man and woman wearing work clothes are standing in a garden, holding very large root vegetables. The woman is wearing a bonnet and the man is weari...
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Ed Radke

Date: 10 1980
Description: "Ed Radke turns soil on his property."
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Batzler Farm

Date: 08 1983
Description: "Threshing on the Batzler farm."
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Pumpkin Harvest

Date: 10 1983
Description: "Milton and Adeline Retzlaff show off their bountiful pumpkin harvest."
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Pontiac Potatoes

Date: 09 1984
Description: "Milton Retzlaff showed off some huge red Pontiac potatoes including a monster that weighted in at a whopping 2 1/2 pounds. Milton claims the potatoes are ...
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Picking Corn

Date: 01 1986
Description: "Larry Luhn, along with relatives and friends, picked corn in a field along Bancroft Road."
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Picking Corn

Date: 01 1986
Description: "Picking corn on the Luhn farm."
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Sarah Krueger Bhend Feeding Cats

Date: 1899
Description: Sarah Krueger Bhend feeding kittens in front of a farm building.
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Willow Basket

Date: 05 1899
Description: View of William Krueger sitting on a bench next to the house, weaving a willow basket and smoking a pipe. In the background is a pedal grinding/sharpening ...
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Husking Corn

Date: 10 1899
Description: A view of men and women husking corn in the field behind a farmhouse. Sitting from left to right are: August Prahl, August Krueger, Sarah Krueger, William...
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Working with a Binder

Date: 1899
Description: View of August, Alex, and Mrs. Alex (Florentina) Krueger working with the binder in a field.
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Kuckkahn Brothers Threshing Rig

Date: 08 15 1899
Description: Three Kuckkahn Brothers standing and siting on their Altman-Taylor Engine, Separator, and Threshing Rig.
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Two Boys and a Woman Holding Milking Machinery

Date: 10 1906
Description: Two boys dressed in dark work shoes, overalls, and button-up shirts are standing on either side of a woman in front of a doorway. The woman is dressed in a...

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