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| Date: | 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a field, and another man drives a team of horses pulling a hay rake. Original caption reads: "Demonstration farms. Alfalfa, with and withou... |
| Date: | 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Man feeding cattle sweet clover hay from stock on an International Harvester demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Man squatting on ground while making a large, earthenware pot in Jaipur, India. |
| 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: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woodcut illustration of four men working with pick-axes and sledge hammers. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing overalls and a straw hat is carrying a metal pail across a barnyard. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A boy (teenager?) works in a sheet metal factory. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on a crate while using a sledge hammer to strike a piece of wood being held in place by another man who is standing in front of him. Two ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | National Youth Administration workers cutting stone in the quarry near the Grignon House. A sign behind the group of boys says: USA Work Program." |
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| Description: | A group portrait of workers in the American Plumbing & Heating Company. |
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| Description: | Several men dip pitchers and pails to apply metal at Vollrath Company. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Four men in a large row boat lifting fishing nets on Lake Superior near Cornucopia. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Man in work clothes holding a shovel loaded with dirt while another man watches in the background. The men were Civilian Conservation Corps workers at Devi... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of miners posing by #1 shaft just north of "G" Pabst. The man on the far left is Joe Iafolla. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Gift cows at the U.S. Marine Helicopter base in Soc Trang, Vietnam. Military and civilian men stand posing in a group in a field. Two of the men hold the r... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Tobin Exploring, Mining & Manufacturing Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with a scene of men with picks, shovels, and other tools working i... |
| 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: | Five boys stand on the sidewalk holding their shoe shining tools and supplies. They are wearing work clothes; shirts, knickers, stockings, shoes and caps. ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the West Side Fuel Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with cartoon-style drawings, printed in black ink, of workers mining coal with a pi... |
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