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Churning Butter

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Ellen (Mrs. William) Lacy, of Sunny Slope farm, 5810 Lacy Road, south of Madison, sitting in the farmyard and turning a barrel butter churn.
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Woman Operating Cream Separator

Date: 11 1919
Description: Mrs. Robert Viall operating a belt-driven cream separator. The separator is powered by an International engine.
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Milking the Cows

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Description: Two men are sitting on stools milking cows in a barnyard within a log fence enclosure. Milking was usually done outside during the 19th century so in this ...
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Helen Holden Besemer Candling Eggs

Date: 05 1924
Description: Helen Holden Besemer sitting in a wooden chair to candle eggs at Holden Poultry Farm.
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Candling Eggs

Date: 06 1925
Description: A woman wearing a dress sitting indoors to candle eggs at the Holden Farm. Cartons of eggs are piled on a table to her left, and household furniture is in ...
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Packing Eggs

Date: 06 1925
Description: A woman wearing a dress is standing behind a table at the Holden Farm while packing eggs into cardboard holders. The holders are piled on a candling table ...
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Woman with Egg Basket

Date: 1921
Description: A woman wearing a fringed shawl is standing in the doorway of a barn holding a basket of eggs.
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Laundry Line

Date: 1920
Description: Clothing hanging on a clothesline strung between a farmhouse and two small farm buildings. Corn and other crops are planted around the farmhouse.
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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 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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Sarah Krueger Bhend Feeding Cats

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

Date: 1898
Description: View up dirt road towards a young man standing near the Turvill shop. The tree-lined road leads up a slope towards another building under trees.

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