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Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
Date: | 02 15 1957 |
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Description: | John Fischer, age 11, demonstrates his invention, a "walking and talking" robot. The robot's eyes light up, and it rolls back and forth on a platform. |
Date: | 10 30 1968 |
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Description: | Three children, dressed up in homemade astronaut costumes for Halloween. One clever parent has made good use of a football helmet! |
Date: | 10 11 1968 |
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Description: | Kindergarten students wear space helmets they made from buckets as part of a class project designed to interest them in current events. A cardboard "Apollo... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Housing for employees of logging and lumber operations associated with International Harvester. The housing consists of small one-room shacks in a wooded a... |
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Description: | Ho-Chunk ceremonial performers posing on the sandy riverbank in front of a steamboat and rock formation. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Procession of child laborers carrying bundles of twine fibre (fiber) down from the mountains in the Philippines. The fibre was likely used by International... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard... |
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Description: | View down sandy beach towards H.H. Bennett and Ruth Bennett on shore near Sugar Bowl. H.H. Bennett is holding a camera over his shoulder. There is an unide... |
Date: | 07 07 1934 |
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Description: | Farmer George Kopp giving a ride on his horse-drawn harrow to a young friend as he cultivates his field. |
Date: | 10 17 1963 |
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Description: | A librarian reads a children's book aloud to young boys and girls. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Russian advertising poster for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm equipment. Includes a large illustration of a woman and young girl with a dog... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Imprinted with "International Harve... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Made by the Hayes Litho. Co. of Buf... |
Date: | 06 24 1921 |
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Description: | Two ten-year-old boys, Paul Lannom and William Smith, posing with an International 8-16 HP tractor and McCormick binder. The boys are the grandsons of "Dad... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Two boys at work indoors constructing the wooden frame of a fly trap at their school. |
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Description: | Two boys of different ages using wood tools, including planes and files, during a classroom exercise. |
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