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Photograph

Father and Daughter in Orchard with International Truck

Date: 1952
Description: Publicity photograph showing a little girl sitting on the running board of an International R-series pickup truck and eating an apple while her father pick...
Book or Pamphlet

Lily Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Lily line of cream separators. Features an illustration of a young girl holding an apple behi...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Peaches

Date: 1911
Description: Three young boys gather around a wheelbarrow filled with giant peaches. One of the boys is holding a peach that has been broken open, exposing its pit. Two...
Photograph

Children Gathering Cranberries

Date: 
Description: Six children sit in a cranberry bog, while another stands in the background.
Photograph

Portrait of a Small Girl

Date: 
Description: A studio portrait of a small girl with a bell in her hands, sitting by a stone railing, a hollowed-out log, with bananas and a hat scattered near her feet....
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 5, "Victory Garden." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left in muted colors, and...
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 4, "Victory Gardens." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left and a happy youn...
Photograph

Cherry Picking

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Description: Girls pick cherries in an orchard. Some hold buckets and sit on ladders.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Just Plums

Date: 1911
Description: Two boys haul four giant plums using a small wagon pulled by two white goats. One boy is holding the reins. The boys are wearing jackets and caps. The back...
Painting

Holiday Card of African American Children Eating Watermelon

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Description: Hand-painted holiday card of three African American children eating watermelon. One girl sits on the ground, a boy has a watermelon in his lap, and the sec...
Photograph

Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy"

Date: 1921
Description: Henry Peck, the "bad boy" played by Jackie Coogan, is caught with his hand in the apple barrel by a police officer in this scene still from the silent film...
Photograph

Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a workbench made of planks and sawhorses. Wooden fruit crates are stacked in a truck and on the ground. There are...
Photograph

Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: Young men and woman pose with baskets and pails, and a girl stands by her bicycle at the Hotz cherry orchard. There are baskets, lids, and boxes of cherrie...
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson, Talcott & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of the catalog cover. Illustration on front shows a group of children looking and laughing at dog that has been costumed in a hat, cape and ...
Photograph

Eating Apples

Date: 09 1904
Description: Esther Bigalk, Edgar Krueger, Josephine Bigalk, and Jennie Krueger sitting on a lawn eating apples. A small wheelbarrow filled with apples is sittings in f...
Photograph

Eating Watermelon in the Barn

Date: 09 1904
Description: Alexander Krueger family eating watermelon in a hay barn. Alexander, Edgar, and Jennie are each holding a slice of watermelon, while Florentina is cutting ...
Photograph

Sitting in a Barn with a Watermelon

Date: 09 1904
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger sitting in hay barn, cutting up and eating a watermelon.
Photograph

Eating Watermelon in the Hay Barn

Date: 09 1904
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger eating watermelon in the hay barn. The watermelon and a knife are sitting between them on a small wheelbarrow.
Photograph

Watermelon Eaters

Date: 
Description: Outdoor portrait of a large group of men, women, and children posing sitting and standing and eating watermelon.
Photograph

Vel Phillips with People and Watermelons

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, standing on right, is in a brown and blue patterned buba (a Yoruba blouse) and holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to her (second from right) ...

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