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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: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Female model posing with a rake next to a reproduction of Cyrus Hall McCormick's first reaper at International Harvester's "A Century of Progress" Worlds F... |
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| Description: | Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Farm scene of foreman watching five farm hands reaping grain with cradles as children, women and field hands help gather it into bundles. |
| 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: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. |
| 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: | 04 18 1934 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Cardinal Hand Laundry, 619 State Street. Two women are ironing, while another woman is folding clothes while under the attention of their m... |
| Date: | 12 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the interior of the O'Sullivan's Karmelkorn Shop, 308 North Henry Street, with a small Christmas tree with tinsel on display in the front window on... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A smiling woman holding an axe holding a pose while chopping wood. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Workers preparing ginseng beds in northern Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | A crew of farm laborers take a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman offers food and drinks. They are posed in front of a reaper with the family ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | With all Hillsboro striving to honor Vice-Admiral March A. Mitscher, who came for a visit with his mother, Bessie Hooker, a maid in the Mr. and Mrs. Lyle H... |
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| Description: | Several people, most wearing goggles and hats, are digging and moving dirt. Three men are behind a wire fence. On the left is a man in a suit. The rest of ... |
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| Description: | A view of two Seminole Native American women grinding corn for "Sofka," a meat stew thickened with vegetables and meal. A man and dog are on the left. Capt... |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | A woman, probably a teacher, is standing at a work bench outdoors nailing together a nail box. Her instructor, identified by original caption as Mr. Shephe... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Lumber camp cooking crew at the hot lunch sled in the woods. There is a tent set up in the background, and a horse hitched to the sled on the left. Foreman... |
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