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| Date: | 08 12 1977 |
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| Description: | A man picks up grass from a lawn, with garbage bags of mowed lawn clippings lined up behind him. A lawn mower stands on the sidewalk nearby. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A boy is standing at the entrance to a teepee. He is dressed in Native American clothing, and is holding an axe. |
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| Description: | Two boys attend to a lawn, one using a scythe to cut and the other raking the cut grass. |
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| Description: | A young boy is mowing the lawn, while two women and a man are posing in the yard and on the porch of a two-story house. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Syl raking a lawn wearing a sailor suit with a cap. In the background are steps leading up to a small porch. A small tent or open-sided awning is pitched i... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A man and woman (possibly husband and wife) maintain a residential backyard. The man, wearing a bow tie, is mowing the lawn with a reel mower, while the wo... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A view of an outdoor seating area at Royal Poinciana Hotel. Numerous tables are arranged around the perimeter of a courtyard, each set with a tablecloth, p... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting outdoors at a spinning wheel, turning a large pile of wool in the foreground into yarn. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn. |
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| Description: | A group of about two dozen male city employees, three carrying shovels, stand in front of the double doors of a large brick building. There is a wooden wal... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | "Groundbreaking ceremony at St. Peter's Lutheran Church for parish hall & school rooms. Left to right: Dennis Schuster, Wayne Giese, Ronald Bernard, Marvi... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | "Pastor Hahn takes a turn with the shovel at the groundbreaking at St. Peter's Lutheran Church." |
| Date: | 03 1979 |
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| Description: | "Mason, Reuben Schuster, lays brick on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney." |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Jose and Esther Bigalk sitting with Emma Gercke outdoors during the summer months with bows in their hair. One girl is sitting in a wash basin and the othe... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a lily pond in Mitchell Park. A man is working among the plants along the shoreline in the middle background. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Features at the top an illustration of a woman standing holding a lawn mower. Cut reads: "Lawn Mowers and Lawn Swings." The bottom illustration shows a wom... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers at the site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill in front of Main Hall (now Bascom Hall). One man sprays water from a hose. The disturbed soil o... |
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| Description: | A man is posing standing sideways on a ladder holding a bucket in front of a brick building and a window. The building is identified as the school building... |
| Date: | 06 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Inn employee Allen Wheeler uses a window-washing brush attached to 60-foot long handle with a thin hose which carries soap and water threaded throu... |
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