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School Boys Using Wood Tools

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Description: Two boys of different ages using wood tools, including planes and files, during a classroom exercise.
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Pfc. Howard A. Endres

Date: 06 20 1945
Description: An Army cook dishes out Pfc. Howard A. Endres's last meal at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, home on furlough after Victory in Europe Day. After his furlou...
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Emerson-Brantingham Factory

Date: 02 25 1924
Description: Slightly elevated view of machinery and machine parts in a large room. The machinery is belt driven from overhead. Light is flooding in from the windows an...
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Emerson-Brantingham Factory

Date: 02 25 1924
Description: Stored in a large room are rows of tractors. Along the left and right corner are stacked beams. Light streams in from skylights in the ceiling. The factory...
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Emerson-Brantingham Factory

Date: 02 25 1924
Description: The factory floor with equipment used to build parts and materials. The stations have motors attached to belts, which are attached to the ceiling with pull...
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Rockford College Jane Adams Room

Date: 1914
Description: Unidentified woman seated in a wicker chair reading in the Jane Adams room at Rockford College. A walled-over fireplace is on the wall behind her, and an H...
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Interior of Chapel

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Description: View from back of room of the interior of the chapel at Rockford College. There is a piano on the right, in front of the stage. Folding chairs are set up i...
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Parts Storage

Date: 08 17 1925
Description: View of room for parts storage which is behind a wall of wire fencing, with a wire door.
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Laura Foster in Prom Dress

Date: 05 1959
Description: Laura Foster (b. 1941) standing in the foyer of her house dressed for her senior prom at Rockford East High School. The sleeveless, knee-length dress is wh...
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Jane Addams

Date: 1881
Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Addams, a social worker, political activist, and author. She was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, as w...

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