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Alfalfa Field "The Manx"

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Description: Photographic postcard view across harvested field towards a man holding a rake and standing next to a horse-drawn wagon, and two women in the wagon sitting...
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John Quinney

Date: 1920
Description: John Quinney, Richard Quinney's grandfather, standing in front of a horse-drawn harrow on the fields of his farm.
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Katherine Quinney

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Description: Katherine (Kate) Quinney, Richard Quinney's great aunt, standing on a country road near the family's farm looking over fields lightly dusted with snow. Th...
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Katherine Quinney

Date: 1915
Description: Katherine (Kate) Quinney, Richard Quinney's great aunt, crocheting while seated on the running board of a Ford Model T in the yard of her family's farm.
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Family Gathering at the Reynolds' Farm

Date: 1912
Description: Family portrait taken in the yard of the Reynolds' farm with a Model T-Ford in the background. Left to right: Marjorie Quinney, William Henry Reynolds, Flo...
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Marjorie at the Old Place

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Description: Marjorie Quinney looking towards the Quinney family farmhouse from a distant field.
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Baby Richard Quinney

Date: 1934
Description: Richard Quinney as a baby held by his father, Floyd Quinney, in the family's farmyard.
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Richard Quinney and Grain Binder

Date: 1937
Description: Young Richard Quinney atop the family's new horse-drawn grain binder in a field.
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Grain Binding

Date: 1944
Description: Young Ralph and Richard Quinney pose for a picture while they cut grain by themselves for the fist time. View includes a grain binder, a tractor and their...
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Hay Mowing

Date: 1947
Description: Young Ralph Quinney driving a horse-drawn hay-mower on his family's farm.
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Lorena Taylor Holloway

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Description: Lorena Taylor Holloway, Richard Quinney's maternal grandmother, standing in a farmyard with a building, milkcans and a fenced field in the background.
Drawing

Hay Into the Barn

Date: 1945
Description: A man stands on top of a full hay wagon parked in front of the closed door of a red barn. Above the man a grappling hook full of hay can be seen through th...
Drawing

Sledding at the Farm

Date: 1945
Description: Two boys sled down a snow covered hillside at the farm. Two leafless trees are on the right. Along the horizon is a red building on the left with a fence s...
Photograph

Warren Potter

Date: 1932
Description: Warren Potter, holding a bucket, poses with his sheep and lambs. There is a road in the background and a farmstead on the other side of the road.
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Children with Goats

Date: 1927
Description: Five children, probably cousins, including Edward Petersen, center, and his brother Conrad, second from right, pose with two goats in an orchard at Black P...
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Retired Farmers

Date: 10 2013
Description: Two retired farmers, Richard Quinney, photographer, on the right wearing a baseball cap with the phrase "Life is good" stitched on it, and his cousin, wear...
Postcard

Honey Bear Farm

Date: 1954
Description: Kodachrome postcard of the grounds and buildings of the Honey Bear Farm. A group of women walking along a pathway lined with flowers. Text on reverse reads...
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Watering the Pigs at the Farm

Date: 08 10 2015
Description: A young boy in the foreground is standing just outside of a pig pen, and is holding a hose to spray water onto the pigs inside the pen. The pigs are wallow...

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