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Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
Photograph

Children with Pet Cockerel

Date: 1914
Description: Two children posing with their pet cockerel. The boy is holding up a piece of dried corn on the cob.
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Zula Belle Walker with Poultry Flock

Date: 1917
Description: Six year-old Zula Belle Walker of McDonald Chapel, Jefferson County, feeding her mongrel flock of poultry.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Riding a Pig

Date: 1916
Description: Two girls wearing white dresses ride a pig, sitting back-to-back. One girl holds the pig's tail and the other holds its ears. A boy pokes the pig's haunch ...
Photograph

Woman in Pen with Turkeys

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Description: A woman standing in a pen with a group of turkeys.
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Man and Woman with Freezer

Date: 1944
Description: A man and woman standing at an International Harvester chest freezer holding pieces of poultry and meat. They are standing in front of a curtain.
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Woman and Girl with Freezer

Date: 1944
Description: A girl handing a piece of poultry to a woman standing in an International walk-in cooler and freezer. They are standing in front of a curtain.
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International Truck with Caged Poultry

Date: 05 25 1937
Description: A man and woman stand next to an International pickup truck loaded with caged poultry. There are farm buildings in the background.
Photograph

Engine Powering Various Farming Machinery

Date: 1910
Description: Man and woman (husband and wife?) with machinery powered by stationary engine.
Photograph

Culling Demonstration

Date: 05 1919
Description: A group of individuals are gathered outdoors to examine chickens during a culling demonstration conducted by Professor Carrick of Purdue University.
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Children with Prize-Winning Poultry

Date: 1914
Description: A girl and a boy wearing wide-brimmed hats sitting outdoors in the grass while holding a prize-winning hen and cockerel on their laps.
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Girl Feeding Chicks

Date: 03 1914
Description: A girl wearing a dress and boots is standing outdoors in a yard near a house to feed chickens and chicks. In the background on the left a child is playing ...
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Mary Binegar with Poultry Account Book

Date: 1916
Description: Mary Binegar, president of the Kiona-Benton School Poultry Club, holds a poultry account book as she stands outdoors near a haystack and several chickens a...
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Woman with Poultry Housing Display

Date: 1915
Description: A woman holding a chicken is standing beside a display illustrating quality poultry housing (chicken coops).
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Children with Prize-Winning Chicks

Date: 05 1925
Description: Two children of Vernon Shurs sit and stand near four poultry houses and multiple prize-winning Rhode Island Red chicks. The girl, squatting and wearing a d...
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Woman with Chicks

Date: 06 1925
Description: A woman wearing a dress, apron, and straw hat kneels to fill the water container in a poultry structure used to house chicks at De Kline Farm.
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Women Outdoors with Sod Poultry House

Date: 1925
Description: A woman uses a metal pail to feed a flock of White Wyandotte chickens near what appears to be a sod chicken coop.
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Mongrel Poultry Flock

Date: 05 1925
Description: A woman using a metal pail to feed a mixed flock of chickens in front of several wooden farm buildings, and what appears to be a garden plot.
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Woman with Poultry Flock

Date: 07 22 1923
Description: Chickens gathering around a woman near a poultry house (or chicken coop) as she is feeding the flock from a metal pail. A man is walking down a path in the...
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Woman and Children with Chicks

Date: 1922
Description: A woman is standing with two children in a poultry yard, feeding chicks and a hen from a coffee can. Several farm buildings are in the background.

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