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Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...
Photograph

Congregational Church

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Description: Three-quarter view of the front and side of the Congregational Church at the bottom of a steep, tree-lined hill. A wooden building with narrow arched windo...
Photograph

Scene at Fred Coleman Farm — Tornado

Date: 09 21 1931
Description: View from road of storm damage to a farm. The barn roof has blown off. Men are working on the roof, which has exposed roof timbers. In the foreground are t...
Photograph

Man with Carpentery Tools

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man posing standing and holding wood-working tools on a shaded patch of ground in a field. Displayed around him is a trunk with more ...
Photograph

Chickens in a Yard

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Description: Chickens in a yard in front of wooden building on the left, and on the right a sideways double-exposure view of trees. The shadow of the photographer is on...
Postcard

Chickens on the Farm

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Description: A smiling grandfather has his arm around a toddler granddaughter. A toddler boy is standing next to them. They are surrounded by chickens, and behind them ...
Postcard

Feeding the Chicken and Geese

Date: 1900
Description: An unidentified woman standing near a shed is feeding chickens and geese in the barnyard.
Photograph

Family and Their Chickens

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a man, woman, and a child standing behind a snowbank. On the right is a group of chickens near a wooden building. Farm buildings ...
Photograph

A Woman, A Girl and Some Chickens

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Description: Outdoor view of a woman and a girl posing standing in a yard. There are chickens and a wooden structure in the distance.
Photograph

Woman with Chickens

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Description: View uphill towards a woman standing next to a wooden structure in a yard with a dog, and chickens behind a wire fence.
Photograph

Dog on a Stump

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Description: View of a dog sitting on a tree stump in a yard, with a chicken, wood piles and a wooden structure in the background.
Photograph

Farm

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Description: View across field towards a farm with a house, two barns, chickens, a windmill, and two smaller buildings.
Print

Hotel Noble Menu

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Description: Front covers of gate fold Hotel Noble menu, with two "hillbilly" figures: one stands barefoot and holds a rifle while a dog sleeps at his feet; the other i...
Photograph

Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1940
Description: Gustave Ott (1871-1954) and Anna Ott (1871-1954) feeding a large flock of multi-colored chickens on their farm. Gustave is carrying a kettle and Anna is ho...
Postcard

Mrs. E.C. Barney Residence After the Cyclone, Oct 10, 1913

Date: 10 10 1913
Description: View towards a tornado-damaged home with most of the roof missing and a collapsed barn. A chicken is in the yard. Captions read: "Barn" and "Mrs. E.C. Barn...
Photograph

Cha-Cha-Cha

Date: 1961
Description: A Prairie Chicken performing his Booming Dance.

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