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Man Plows Garden Lots with Mogul 10-20(?) Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Man using a Mogul 10-20(?) tractor with attached plow to plow garden lots in an urban residential neighborhood at Jackson Blvd. and 54th Street. "This outf...
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Farmall Cub Tractor

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Description: Three-quarter view towards a man operating a Farmall Cub tractor in a garden.
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Two Men Sifting Compost for a Garden

Date: 06 1923
Description: Two men sifting compost soil through a screen.
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Family Weeding Garden

Date: 08 1914
Description: John Van Ness and his niece and nephew removing weeds from their "truck patch." Mr. Van Ness is using a hoe.
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Spraying Potatoes with Pesticide

Date: 06 1923
Description: Men using the "big sprayer" to apply pesticide to garden potatoes at R.R. Robertson's farm.
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Victory Garden Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in...
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Winnebago County Asylum Farm

Date: 1930
Description: View over fence of a man wearing a hat using a tilling tool in a garden presumably belonging to the Winnebago County Asylum farm.
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Gardeners Loading Produce Truck

Date: 1915
Description: International Model M truck used by Terpstra & Son for garden crop shipments. Two men load the truck bed with crates for shipment of what appears to be a r...
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Mongrel Poultry Flock

Date: 05 1925
Description: A woman using a metal pail to feed a mixed flock of chickens in front of several wooden farm buildings, and what appears to be a garden plot.
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Fredric March

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Description: Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown.
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Laboring in Vegetable Garden

Date: 1908
Description: Group of men and women laboring in a garden among rows of leafy vegetables. There is a farmhouse in the background.
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Teenagers with Vegetables

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Description: A young man and woman wearing work clothes are standing in a garden, holding very large root vegetables. The woman is wearing a bonnet and the man is weari...
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George Washington's Mount Vernon Gardens

Date: 1950
Description: View of the lower gardens at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Two gardeners are tending to the flowers along the path that leads to an outdoor pavilion.
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"Smiling Mushroom" Relocation Project

Date: 04 2000
Description: Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski...
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"Smiling Mushroom" Relocation Project

Date: 04 2000
Description: Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski...
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Man Driving International Truck

Date: 07 13 1928
Description: Three-quarter view from front of a man driving a truck down a street. The sign on the driver's side door reads: "Kansas City Journal Post." Two signs on po...
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"Smiling Mushroom" Relocation Project

Date: 04 2000
Description: Successful relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Hos...
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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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"Blue Dragon Urn" Relocation Project

Date: 05 2000
Description: Lou Host-Jablonski, AIA architect, standing by the "Smiling Mushroom" and a new concrete foundation that he poured for the "Blue Dragon Urn." Both sculptur...

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