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Young Girls Playing with Dolls

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Description: Six young girls playing with dolls on a porch.
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Cutting Firewood with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1950
Description: Two farmers cutting firewood with a belt-driven circular saw powered by a McCormick Farmall H tractor.
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 06 1923
Description: Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft.
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Farmer Cuts Firewood

Date: 11 26 1923
Description: Farmer, possibly Walter Stange, cutting wood with a circular saw run by a 1 1/2 H.P. Type M McCormick-Deering gas engine.
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Stoking the Fire

Date: 1950
Description: A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler.
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Cutting Wood with W-4 Tractor

Date: 1950
Description: View towards two men cutting wood with a saw powered by a McCormick standard W-4 tractor.
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Camping with an International Travelall

Date: 1971
Description: Color advertising photograph of a family singing by a campfire near a Travelall 1010 truck and a Mallard camper. A man is in the foreground chopping wood f...
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Men Cut Firewood with Belt-Driven Saw

Date: 08 08 1935
Description: Men cutting firewood with a belt-driven saw powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor on the farm of Spencer Johnson.
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Farm Hazard: Chopping Wood

Date: 1926
Description: A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood.
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Engine Powering Cutting Saw

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Description: A man using an International engine to power a wood cutting saw in Australia.
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Canoe Outdoors near House

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Description: A canoe rests on sawhorses in front of a stack of firewood and frame house.
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Canoe on Sawhorses

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Description: A canoe rests on sawhorses in front of a stack of firewood and frame house.
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Three Men and Two Young Girls with Sawhorse

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Description: Three men stand with two young girls near a sawhorse. One of the men holds a saw. A large building is visible in the background.
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Woman Sawing Wood with Sawhorse

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Description: A woman stands at a sawhorse between two small outbuildings using a hand saw with a sawhorse. A large building is visible in the background.
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Man Sawing Logs

Date: 1912
Description: A man cutting logs with a circular table saw powered by a stationary engine. In the background is a storefront, with hay bales and an advertisement for Wri...
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Men Sawing Logs in the Field

Date: 1912
Description: Two men cutting logs with a circular saw powered by a stationary engine. One man is feeding logs to the saw while the other man is standing by a pile of th...
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Maple Sugaring

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Description: Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho...
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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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Dangers While Chopping Wood

Date: 06 1927
Description: Two men chop wood beside a wooden shed at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. One man raises an axe while steadying a piece of wood with ...

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