Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Interior of the cottage with a rocking chair, a wood stove, a painting on the wall, and a spinning wheel on the left. The floor is wooden, and the wallpape... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | The kitchen in the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restorati... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Robert Neal baking Cornish pasty at Pendarvis. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Miss Foy Martin filling a bucket with water from a sink faucet, while her mother is lighting a burner on the stove inside the kitchen of R. Martin. |
Date: | 06 1927 |
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Description: | A man is sitting in a wooden chair while reading and resting his foot against a woodstove. The photograph was staged at International Harvester's Hinsdale ... |
Date: | 11 1919 |
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Description: | Mrs. Irving Bielby placing a roast on a plate after cooking it in a pressure kettle at the Babcock farm. |
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Description: | A man with an armful of wood gets ready to feed a woodburning stove inside a shed. A pile of cut wood sits behind the man. |
Date: | 1966 |
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Description: | View of a maple syrup shack on the side of a hill. Smoke is billowing out of the doorway, which is blocked by a wheel barrel full of wood. Two men are in t... |
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Description: | Farmers prepare a hog for slaughter. A group of farmers stand around hog on a long table outdoors. Smoke and steam billow from a stove in the foreground an... |
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Description: | Far view of farmers preparing a hog for slaughter. A group of farmers stand around a hog on a long table outside. Smoke and steam billow from a stove in th... |
Date: | 1976 |
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Description: | "Evangeline Koll guides visitors at the Solomon Juneau House." |
Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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Description: | Carl Sandburg posing with two of the guides at Wade house during his visit to the restored stagecoach inn for its dedication as a historic site. Speaking a... |
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Description: | Color postcard of a female telephone operator at an 1890s era switchboard. |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Kitchen at Polperro House. Near the window is a chair and a butter churn. In the center is a woodburning stove, with a firewood box behind it against the w... |
Date: | 04 1980 |
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Description: | Back of a classroom at the Old Halfway Prairie Schoolhouse, a one-room schoolhouse, which operated from 1844 until 1961. In the front of the room is a wood... |
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Description: | Ektachrome postcard of the front parlor, with mannequins of women dressed in period clothing sitting in chairs. Text on reverse reads: "The Front Parlor... |
Date: | 1956 |
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Description: | Color postcard of the upstairs parlor, with two women wearing period dress sitting in chairs and reading. Text on reverse reads: "UPSTAIRS SITTING ROOM,... |
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Description: | Ektachrome postcard of the kitchen. A woman wearing period clothing is sitting by a spinning wheel near the woodstove and fireplace. Text on reverse rea... |
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Description: | Ektachrome postcard of a mannequin of a women wearing period dress ironing in the summer kitchen. Dried corn is strung up near the ceiling. Text on reve... |
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Description: | Ektachrome postcard of the dining room with the table set with dinnerware. Text on reverse reads: "The Dining Room tables are set with the original iron... |
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