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Public School

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior view of a two-story public school. The basement windows are broken. A tree and a house are on the left in the background. Stacks of fuelwood are o...
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Woman at Wood Pile

Date: 1923
Description: A woman, possibly Anna Neary, gathering pieces of chopped wood in her arms as she kneels near a wood pile on the A.E. Bancroft farm.
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Woman with Firewood

Date: 07 1923
Description: A woman moving a box of firewood inside a farmhouse. A teakettle is standing on a stove to the left.
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Woman Cooking

Date: 07 1923
Description: Mrs. John Esche using a woodburning stove marked "Home Comfort" while preparing food. A crate holding firewood is to the right of the stove.
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Woodburning Stove

Date: 06 1923
Description: A wooden storage box for firewood behind a woodburning stove in a farmhouse kitchen. A sink with a hand-powered water pump is on the right.
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 10 04 1923
Description: A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background...
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Engine-Powered Saw

Date: 10 1923
Description: A man wearing overalls and a cap is using a saw powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to cut wood on International Harvester's Hinsdale expe...
Postcard

School Building

Date: 05 16 1908
Description: Photographic postcard of a two-floor school building with a covered front entrance underneath a bell tower. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "School B...
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Cheese Factory

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of a two-story cheese factory. The building features a set of stairs leading to the second-floor entrance and three chimneys. There is a large pil...
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Woman Moving Wood Box

Date: 1923
Description: A woman moving a box full of firewood from the corner of the kitchen on the E.A. Bancroft farm. A woodstove is on the right.
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Woman Moving Wood Box

Date: 06 1923
Description: A woman moving a box of firewood from the corner of the kitchen on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. A woodburning stove is the right.
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 1923
Description: A woman using an axe to chop wood in a rural area. A pile of logs is in the background.
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Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: Farm equipment, including a grain binder and mower, are lying in the snow outside a farmhouse. In the background on the right two children are standing nea...
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Blue Moon Tavern

Date: 1935
Description: View across road of automobile parked next to gasoline pump outside of the Blue Moon Tavern on County Highway 24.
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Taliesin II Living Room

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Description: Living room of Taliesin II looking towards the fireplace, built-in bench, and work storage area.
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Man Loading Wood into a Woodburning Stove

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Description: A man with an armful of wood gets ready to feed a woodburning stove inside a shed. A pile of cut wood sits behind the man.
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Street Scene

Date: 1916
Description: View down middle of dirt road. There are dwellings on either side behind rows of trees. A hill is in the far background.
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Cooking Maple Sap

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Description: Two men are cooking maple sap over a wood burning cauldron in a clearing. One man is feeding the fire with logs while the other man is pouring in the sap. ...
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Checking the Syrup in a Modern Evaporator

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Description: View of Wilmer Schulz, near High Cliff State Park, checking the syrup in a modern evaporator while standing over a vat of boiling syrup. Large piles of fue...
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Maple Syrup Shack

Date: 1966
Description: View of a maple syrup shack on the side of a hill. Smoke is billowing out of the doorway, which is blocked by a wheel barrel full of wood. Two men are in t...

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