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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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Shipping Chicks

Date: 06 1925
Description: Two men unload containers of chicks from the back of a horse-drawn wagon as part of a parcel post delivery. The sign on a brick building in the background ...
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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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Man Butchering Chicken

Date: 1926
Description: A man wearing a necktie and collared shirt using an axe to butcher a chicken on a block of wood at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. A ...
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Man Feeding Chickens

Date: 06 1927
Description: A man wearing a straw hat feeding chickens out of a metal bucket in front of a poultry house at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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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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Mr. Chaddick with Incubator

Date: 05 1923
Description: Mr. Chaddick of the Fox River Poultry Farm, wearing coveralls and a cap, turning eggs in a Buckeye #8 incubator.
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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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Chicken Slaughtering

Date: 1925
Description: A man wearing a hat and suspenders is using an axe to slaughter a chicken, using a log as a base. A large pile of firewood is behind him.
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Culling Demonstration

Date: 1919
Description: A group of men and women gather around Professor Garrick in the yard and on the porch of a farmhouse to watch a poultry culling demonstration. Additional f...
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Boy with Prize-Winning Rooster

Date: 1920
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...
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Culling Crate

Date: 07 1921
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 ...
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Man Butchering Chicken

Date: 1921
Description: A man is using an axe to butcher a chicken on a tree stump. A large pile of firewood is in the background.
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Union Gamecock and Secession Chicken

Date: 1860
Description: A rooster with a Union flag, representing the Union army, is facing a chicken (with what appears to be ostrich legs) with a piracy flag, which is supposed ...
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Child with Wagon Box

Date: 03 1926
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...
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Canning Chicken

Date: 05 1924
Description: Helen Holden using a pair of tongs to remove a can of chicken from a metal container on Holden Poultry Farm.
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Poultry Yard

Date: 1899
Description: Chickens stand in a fenced-in yard among rows of poultry houses. A farmhouse and other buildings stand in the background.
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Cock Pit

Date: 
Description: View of a thatched roof cock pit located in a fenced-in area and surrounded by trees. Published by Variety Store.

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