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Alexander Lake's Nursery

Date: 1896
Description: A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons...
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Railroad Crew with Handcar

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Description: Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks.
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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Framework of a Barn

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Description: Four men work on the framework of a barn.
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Women and Farmer Posing in a Field

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Description: Five women, two seated in a carriage hitched to a horse and three on foot pose in a field with a farmer.
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Portrait of Four Workmen

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Description: Four workmen, two sitting and two standing, pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing hats, and there is a wood rusti...
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Men Planting at the Lake Nursery

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Description: Ten men are working in a field, probably planting raspberries at the Lake Nursery. Some of the men are standing watching. In the background are trees and h...
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: A group of men are operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Three men are posing in the foreground near the tractor, and anot...
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. The negative is double exposed and shows the outline of a photographer's wagon.
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Two men are posing on the right with the tractor. On the left a group of men are...
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High School Construction

Date: 1897
Description: View towards front entrance of the partially constructed Senior High School. A man is walking up a board into the open doorway of the school. A horse is st...
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Men Posing with Tree Stumps

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Description: Four men posing with stumps they are pulling in an open field. In the background is a winch powered by two horses in the background. There are power lines ...
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Steam Tractor Running a Thresher

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Description: View across field of tall grass towards two men on a steam tractor belt-driving a thresher on the far left near a team of two horses. In the background is ...
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Farmhands and Cattle in a Farmyard

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Description: Group portrait over fence of two men, a woman, and a boy posing in a farmyard with cattle and a team of oxen. In the background are farm buildings and a ph...
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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 ...
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Steam Tractor

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Description: View towards a man posing standing next to a steam tractor, which is next to a tree and in front of a haystack.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: View towards six men posing standing in and on top of a large haystack. In front of the haystack is a man standing on a large pile of hay on a wagon near t...
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Horses Pulling a Reaper

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Description: View across yard towards a man standing on the back of a reaper pulled by a team of two horses on a road.

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