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Lexington Market

Date: 1905
Description: People standing and posing outdoors. Caption reads: "Lexington Market."
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Produce Market

Date: 1935
Description: Downtown outdoor market place.
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Gardener and Sons Posing with Delivery Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Gardener Edward Schuetz and four sons posing with his delivery truck loaded with vegetables for market. The truck is not an International model.
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W.A. Oppel Grocery

Date: 1896
Description: Grocers standing in front of the W.A. Oppel Grocery located at 116 East Main Street. The five men are standing on the sidewalk among bine and crates displa...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Showing Off the Corn

Date: 1908
Description: Photomontage of a man, wearing a bow tie and straw boater hat, sitting on top of a giant ear of corn. A crowd of onlookers gather around the man, suggestin...
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Per-Ola Land Co. Booth

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Description: Man standing in a booth promoting the Per-Ola Land Company. There are several Forest County grown grains and crops on display in the booth to show the boun...
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Bronstein & Rovner Truck

Date: 1936
Description: Four men load fruits and vegetables into the back of an International C-30 truck owned by Bronstein & Rovner. The truck is backed up at the loading dock of...
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Grocer Receiving Shipment of Produce

Date: 1915
Description: Two International trucks parked outside Atkin & Tharp grocery store with shipments of produce. The grocer is leaning against one of the trucks and the deli...
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Group Working in Garden

Date: 1920
Description: Children and two women, possibly a school group, work with hand tools in an urban garden. An elevated railroad is in the background, along with the Acme St...
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North Vietnam Street Scene

Date: 1967
Description: Street scene of children and adults in Phat Diem, a city about 100 miles south of Hanoi.
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Fall River Canning Company Entrance

Date: 1969
Description: Entrance to Fall River Canning Company. A number of trucks full of vegetables are in the parking lot or driveway in front of low sprawling warehouse buildi...
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Sarajevo Street

Date: 11 1940
Description: A street scene in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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G.M. Breakey Drugs and Groceries

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Description: Group of men, women, children and a dog posing standing in front of G.M. Breakey Drugs and Groceries. One man, perhaps the grocer, is standing in front of ...
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Cucumber Harvesting Machine

Date: 1968
Description: Two men are riding on a cucumber harvesting machine called the "Pickle Harvester" as labeled on the center between two lights. The man on the right, wearin...
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Waiting to Load Sacks on Train

Date: 09 1902
Description: Farmers with wagon loads of sacks of potatoes(?), probably waiting to load them on a train.
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Salvation Army Harvest Festival

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Description: Interior view, over the heads of an audience sitting in the foreground, of a room filled with vegetable produce. A man, and a woman holding a puppy, are st...
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A. McDicken & Son Truck

Date: 07 16 1928
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck for A. McDicken & Son delivery truck. The truck bed has a stake body, and is stack...
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Delivering Vegetables

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Description: Deliveries of vegetables in Berlin.
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Community Garden, Cook County

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Description: Group portrait of men, women and children standing in a field behind a fence. A sign on a post reads: "Community Garden, Cook County, Dist. 124." Hand-tint...
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Boy and Girl with Cart Full of Vegetables

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Description: A boy and girl are standing around a cart loaded with vegetables, next to a sign that reads: "Community Garden, Cook County, Dist. 124." Hand-tinted lanter...

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