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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ... |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | Two women and one man, probably rural school teachers, are standing outdoors near a work bench, reviewing the blueprints to construct a nail box. |
| Date: | 03 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand... |
| Date: | 02 15 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Crumley cutting slabs of meat from a hog placed on a wooden table outdoors among trees. Another woman is in the background near some stea... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and wide-brimmed hat is emptying water from one pail into another beside a hand-cranked well. The photograph was taken on the John ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using an axe to chop wood in a rural area. A pile of logs is in the background. |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a checkered dress uses a hoe in a small garden plot. Trees, shrubs, and an open field can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 08 29 1967 |
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| Description: | A group of people sit and stand outdoors with a group of baskets at a collective farm near Phat Diem, North Vietnam, visited by American journalist David S... |
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| Description: | A group of people, presumably loggers and camp employees, pose with horses at a logging camp. A muddy puddle is in the foreground, and behind the group are... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Construction crew and observers standing on a scaffold. Trees, a wooden tripod with a block and tackle and the roof of a house are visible in the backgroun... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Lumber camp group, W.H. Rogers Lumber Co., near Nashville. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of one man and two women tending the cows near a farm building at a dairy farm in Vide Saeter, Norway. The Vide Valley is in the background. |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of men and women sitting and standing in a field harvesting a crop. |
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