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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | "Your 1939 Calendar" published for International Harvester farm equipment dealers. The cover features a painting of the Swiss Alps. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Log Cabin Lodge on Lake Millicent, a one-story log cabin with stone foundation with two doors on the right. There is a water pump outside the c... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Buildings near International Harvester's Saltillo Works in Mexico. A donkey stands at left, and a tractor is parked in front of a building near a large, st... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man pumps water from an old wooden pump into a tin cup. This photo was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrat... |
| Date: | 11 23 1915 |
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| Description: | Boy retrieves water from a school well. Original caption reads: "This Old fashioned well, at Sheffield School near Union City, Tenn. is typical of the enti... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar... |
| Date: | 01 1983 |
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| Description: | "The wishing well on the Philip and Marilyn Zingsheim property takes on a different aura with new fallen snow on a winter evening." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View down unpaved road of a filling station. Along the side of the station on the left is a hand-pump, and a large tank lying on its side. Three buildings ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three men and a woman pose with a pole of a stringer of fish. One of the men holds his pet dog. Behind them on the left is a bathtub, hand-pump for water, ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Lillian Simonson, Altrusa Club member and Marquette School principal, is shown giving a preview of a wishing well to youths Jerry Bailey and Janet Dahl. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Students and their teacher, Gladys Hofseth (back row, far right), pose outside Eagle Corners School. The school is a wood frame building with an enclosed p... |
| Date: | 06 28 1915 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the exterior of the three-story Commercial Hotel. The building has a false front. Two women stand on the balcony and two men stand... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man hand pumps water in the yard outside of White Station Freedom House. "In all the rural Freedom Houses (and all rural houses) wells and outhous... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of men standing near a T-intersection. The three-story building on the left side of the intersection has a sandwich board advertising "Ice Cream." A m... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Submitted as an example of "The Homes of Pupils," this two-story Victorian house was the parsonage of Peace Reformed Church and home of Pastor Edward P. Nu... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A mother with her children retrieving water from a village well in Russia. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View up hill of the public school, which is a two-story wood frame building with a belfry in the center of the roof. Stairs lead to the arched entrance, an... |
| Date: | 09 21 1931 |
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| Description: | View of damaged farmhouse and group of people sitting and standing outdoors. The roof was blown off and windows were shattered. Four women stand in the yar... |
| Date: | 08 07 1924 |
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| Description: | View across yard of a storm-damaged farmhouse. In the foreground is an overturned automobile. The windows of the house have been blown out and the roof has... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | English noblewoman Kathryn, Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson), sits on the edge of a rustic well in a scene still for the 1917 silent film "Barbary S... |
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