Date: | 04 1917 |
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Description: | Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ... |
Date: | 07 1932 |
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Description: | Mother and her two daughters posing near a version of International Harvester's logo at the McCormick Works community garden. The garden was one of several... |
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Description: | A wide pathway in a wooded area has an arched trellis covered in vines. On the left is a small brick column with a sign reading: "Do Not Enter Here". |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Display in the window of John J. Blied & Sons promoting victory gardens and featuring seed packets, hoes, and watering cans. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Young John Bollenbach standing in the middle of a garden, identified as his "Cook County school-home project." |
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Description: | View of Our Lady of Grace Chapel at Saint Thomas Church. A path leads to the entrance of the chapel, a stone structure with an arch, and decorated with pla... |
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Description: | View of a large statue entitled, "The Hercules." The base includes a poem on a plaque. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Children and two women, possibly a school group, work with hand tools in an urban garden. An elevated railroad is in the background, along with the Acme St... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Three boys and a woman standing near several signs advertising a war garden. The signs read (from top to bottom): "Every Boy Can Feed a Soldier," "Register... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | A group of children and women standing in what is probably a "war garden" in an urban area. Several commercial buildings are in the background, one painted... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | View across road of the Village Inn; featuring a "Hotel" sign, vines along the screened porch windows, and a fenced garden. |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | A man, two women, and two girls stand outside a gas station and automotive repair shop. The shop features a sign that reads, "Free crankcase service." |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner of the Best Garden competition in the Junior Girls category, Catherine L... |
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Description: | View from street of the Standard Oil filling station with Red Crown gasoline pumps. Two attendants are standing near an entrance with a sign for a postal t... |
Date: | 12 21 1943 |
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Description: | Technical Sergeant Leonard Stoltz (left) and Technical Sergeant Warren Fuhrman (right), both of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, relax in front of a tent at a base in... |
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Description: | View from unpaved road of the "Home Hotel," a two-story wood frame building with a balcony and a porch. Several flowers are planted in the garden and in po... |
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Description: | Colorized postcard view of the exterior view of a motel. A neon sign over the main building. A gas pump is in the drive. Caption reads: "Devi-Dells Cabins,... |
Date: | 1927 |
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Description: | The grounds at Springhill Cottages, with four cottages on the hill in the background. There is a person sitting on a chair inside an open-sided building in... |
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Description: | Two guest cottages on the edge of the Wisconsin River. Both cottages have screened-in porches. There is a round garden on the lawn surrounded by stones. An... |
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... |
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