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"Let's Get a Good Cow"

Date: 02 1914
Description: A woman wearing a bonnet and apron kneeling in a field to milk a cow.
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McCormick-Deering Cooler

Date: 1937
Description: A man puts cleaned and dressed chickens into a cooler or freezer for storage.
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Harrison Produce Company Sales Counter

Date: 1937
Description: A man behind a counter weighs chickens on a countertop scale, and a women in a coat examines chickens on the counter. Some canned items are on a shelf behi...
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Schauls Live Poultry Farm

Date: 11 12 1938
Description: Workers wearing aprons are plucking, cleaning, and dressing chickens at the Schauls Live Poultry Farm. One man is looking at a chicken over an open McCormi...
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Man Delousing a Chicken

Date: 05 1919
Description: A man crouching near a pail of sodium fluoride to dip a chicken as part of a delousing procedure at the Purdue University farm.
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Man Feeding Chickens

Date: 1914
Description: A man stands outside a chicken coop at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station while feeding a flock of chickens from a wooden pail.
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Woman with Poultry Housing Display

Date: 1915
Description: A woman holding a chicken is standing beside a display illustrating quality poultry housing (chicken coops).
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Man Butchering Chicken

Date: 1926
Description: A man wearing a necktie and collared shirt using an axe to butcher a chicken on a block of wood at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. A ...
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Mr. Chaddick with Incubator

Date: 05 1923
Description: Mr. Chaddick of the Fox River Poultry Farm, wearing coveralls and a cap, turning eggs in a Buckeye #8 incubator.
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Chicken Slaughtering

Date: 1925
Description: A man wearing a hat and suspenders is using an axe to slaughter a chicken, using a log as a base. A large pile of firewood is behind him.
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Man Butchering Chicken

Date: 1921
Description: A man is using an axe to butcher a chicken on a tree stump. A large pile of firewood is in the background.
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Cutting Off Chicken Legs

Date: 04 1927
Description: Person's hands cutting the legs off a recently plucked chicken with pruning shears. A can of Sterno is in the background.
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Canning Chicken at Holden's Farm

Date: 1925
Description: Two women working at P.G. Holden's Farm canning chicken. On the table there is canning equipment, chicken, and open cans.
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Egg Day Parade

Date: 10 15 1935
Description: Men and women pose in a household scene constructed on an International C-line truck for use in a parade on Egg Day at the Western Washington Fair. The par...
Postcard

Chicks and Eggs

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Description: Studio portrait of chicks on a cloth covered box, and eggs in front of them.
Book or Pamphlet

Baby Sitting in Cart Pulled by Chicken

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Description: A baby is sitting in a cart pulled by a chicken (rooster). Another child is sitting on porch steps of a house behind the baby. Lantern slide.

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