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| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere using a washing machine powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harveste... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to pump water into a metal bucket outside a building at International Harvester's Hinsdale experime... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and wide-brimmed hat is emptying water from one pail into another beside a hand-cranked well. The photograph was taken on the John ... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | View of a sink, cupboard, and stove in the farmhouse kitchen of Miss Marilla Zearing. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Boys and girls working to plant and tend to a garden surrounded by buildings and fences in what appears to be an urban area. The location is likely a schoo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Children working in garden. One child is pulling beets, while another child is digging up potatoes with a hoe. Another child is sitting in a wheelbarrow lo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Farm produce is stored in the corner of a cellar with dirt floors and brick walls. Gourds, potatoes, and pumpkins are kept in barrels, baskets, and on a ta... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jake George standing on a wooden porch while using a foot pedal to wring excess water from a mop. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A boy using a pitcher and bowl set on a table outdoors to wash up after doing farm chores. |
| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | A girl is using a hand-crank clothing wringer and washboard to do laundry outside a farmhouse on the John Eshe farm. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using an axe to chop wood in a rural area. A pile of logs is in the background. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman stirs a pot on a six-burner electric stove. Two Hotpoint automatic electric ovens stand beside the stove, and canisters and teapots stand on the st... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | View into a storage closet in the kitchen of Marilla Zearing. A vacuum cleaner, broom ("bissel"), kerosene lantern, and other supplies are stored inside, a... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A butcher holds a knife as he weighs a piece of meat on a hanging scale. A male customer wearing a one-piece work suit and hat waits on the opposite side o... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and apron washes her hands in a metal bucket set on a table on a farmhouse porch. Multiple metal pails with handles and a milk pail... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron is removing a wire rack filled with glass canning jars from a boiler on a Coleman Pressure Range on International Harvester's Hins... |
| Date: | 07 24 1923 |
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| Description: | A man is using a 10-20(?) tractor and chain to remove a stump from a piece of land on the R.R. Robertson farm. Two other men are looking on. |
| Date: | 12 18 1922 |
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| Description: | A man is using a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to assist in clearing land in a residential area. Several other men are standing in the background hold... |
| Date: | 07 22 1927 |
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| Description: | A man uses a tractor and rope to fell a tree in an area that appears to have been cleared by fire. |
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