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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing a straw hat, cuffed overalls, and sneakers sits on a wooden crate while holding a prize-winning rooster. A ribbon rests on the boy's leg read... |
| Date: | 07 1921 |
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| Description: | Miss Marquiss lifts a sliding door from a culling crate housing multiple chickens. The door is supported by a wooden crate and connects to what appears to ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man is using an axe to butcher a chicken on a tree stump. A large pile of firewood is in the background. |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A child wearing a coat and hat is standing in a toy wagon marked "Lightning Coaster" beside a wagon box propped on wooden stakes. A flock of geese is in th... |
| Date: | 05 1924 |
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| Description: | Helen Holden using a pair of tongs to remove a can of chicken from a metal container on Holden Poultry Farm. |
| Date: | 07 22 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman and child feed a flock of chickens from a bucket while standing outside a shed. A young boy sits near the farmhouse, and a train on railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Gillespie using a metal bucket to feed a flock of White Leghorn chickens outside a farm building on an International Harvester demonstration farm. A s... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with a brown terrier dog standing upright on his back feet. He is holding a dead turkey by the feet in his left paw and a basket of dead t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of three French orphan children, two boys and a girl, herding three geese. The youngest boy holds a switch. A meadow, trees and a house are vi... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a soldier walking while carrying a child who is waving an American flag. The soldier is wearing a uniform and a campaign hat. Two childre... |
| Date: | 04 1927 |
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| Description: | Person's hands cutting the legs off a recently plucked chicken with pruning shears. A can of Sterno is in the background. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Oscar Steinkopf feeding the chickens on his 40-acre farm near Luck. Feeding the chickens was traditionally considered women's work and perhaps Steinkopf wa... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Two women working at P.G. Holden's Farm canning chicken. On the table there is canning equipment, chicken, and open cans. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Large group of chickens eating on a low wooden platform set on the ground. |
| Date: | 11 03 1957 |
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| Description: | Ray Schmid (right) hands a frozen turkey to Ray Wolf, a winner of the Verona Optimist Club turkey shoot. Proceeds from the event go to the club's youth pro... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Harvey Lein, 13, poses with a flock of chickens near a barn. He is wearing a cap and bib overalls and is carrying a bucket. There are bushes blooming in ... |
| Date: | 11 19 1958 |
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| Description: | High schoolers choose a mascot for the Thanksgiving eve "Turkey Trot" dance sponsored by the Junior Red Cross. Holding a live turkey on the left is Sandy W... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Frank Smith, Jr., age 12, feeds chickens on his father's farm. The farmhouse is in the background. Young Smith was a student at the Hillcrest School, Distr... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Mary Krueger standing in the chicken coop feeding the chickens. Adult chickens and young chicks are standing around her feet eating the feed. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman standing near a shed is feeding chickens and geese in the barnyard. |
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