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Harnischfeger Food Drive

Date: 03 1946
Description: Harnischfeger workers aren't on strike but they do their bit every week to help those who are. This picture was taken at the end of a regular Wednesday mo...
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Picnic Dinner

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Description: Children and adults seated at a large make-shift picnic table in a field near a tree. In the background on the left is a carriage, and on the right a horse...
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Food Will Win the War

Date: 1917
Description: World War I poster urging newly arrived immigrants to conserve food to aid the allied cause. People in ethnic costume being ushered into the United States ...
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Canning Club Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1914
Description: Lula Tunisson using an El Flo hot water canner to give a presentation to the men, women, and children of a canning club.
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Produce Farming Lecture

Date: 1915
Description: Men stand around or sit on the steps of a stone building to listen as A.E. Chamberlain delivers a lesson on the benefits of vegetable production. Chamberla...
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Picnic with the Nofsingers

Date: 06 01 1929
Description: Bernard Arms (standing), uncle of Lewis Arms, shares a picnic with his neighbors Mr. and Mrs. (Betsy) Nofsinger.
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Cranberry Cooking

Date: 02 1989
Description: Outdoor gathering of men, women and children cooking cranberries in a large kettle, perhaps at a winter festival.
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Sarajevo Street

Date: 11 1940
Description: A street scene in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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Dogs Eating Ice Cream

Date: 07 1956
Description: Dogs in a car being fed ice cream cones by a man standing on the sidewalk and a woman sitting inside the car. The car is a Rambler Custom. Across the stree...
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Luncheon for Returning Soldiers

Date: 1918
Description: Scene in a small city park showing a group of local women serving luncheon to soldiers recently returned from service in the first World War. Very possibly...
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Group Portrait of Unidentified People at a Picnic

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a group having a picnic in a garden. Women and children are sitting around blankets on the ground, and women and men are standing...
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Drying Jerky

Date: 1910
Description: An Indian man and boy posing next to a birch frame used for drying jerky.
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French PoW's Receiving Meals

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Description: French prisoners in the German PoW camp in Zossen, Prussia, with steaming bowls of soup.
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First Wounded in Berlin

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin, at a coffee break outdoors.
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Feeding The Needy

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Description: Feeding the needy in Friedenau-Wilmersdorf at the Kaiserplatz.
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Feeding the Hungry Poor in Berlin

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Description: Open air dining for civilians without money in the Friedenau-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin along the the Kaiserplatz.
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Red Cross Soup Kitchen

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Description: Red Cross soup kitchen with a crowd at the entrance. For 10 pfennigs one can obtain a hearty lunch.
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Red Cross Soup Kitchen

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Description: Red Cross soup kitchen in Berlin on the Moritzplatz.
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Red Cross Soup Kitchen

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Description: Red Cross soup kitchen in Berlin on the Moritzplatz.
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Belgian Refugees in the Marketplace of Bergen Op Zoom

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees in the marketplace waiting for goods.

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