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Polperro Undergoing Restoration

Date: 1940
Description: A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, built in the 1840s, on Shake Rag Street undergoing restoration. The house was temporarily covered with s...
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"Blue Dragon Urn" Relocation Project

Date: 05 2000
Description: Lou Host-Jablonski, AIA architect, preparing the new concrete foundation for the "Blue Dragon Urn," which was relocated from Sid Boyum's backyard to the pu...
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McCormick Slave Quarters — Walnut Grove Restoration

Date: 01 1938
Description: Men are standing on scaffolding working on the roof near the top of the chimney. A tree is near the log building on the right. Handwritten on back: "Slave ...
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Man Making Split Shingles at Walnut Grove

Date: 02 07 1938
Description: A man is making split shingles. Handwritten on back: "5. A thin section of block being split to shingle thickness with the aid of the frow[sic]."
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Mill Building — Walnut Grove

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Two men are looking toward the back of the mill building which is on the right. Behind the man on the right is the Blacksmith Shop. In the distance are fen...
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Walnut Grove Restoration Workers

Date: 08 04 1938
Description: Group portrait of workers posing at the back of the Grist Mill at Walnut Grove. A number of the men are holding their tools. Herbert A. Kellar, in charge o...

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