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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: | 1896 |
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Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | A foldout, illustrated poster for a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth program featuring images of teenaged boys working. The text reads: "The CCC — A... |
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: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Three workers pouring molten metal into small containers at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Com... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of three raftsmen standing in the river, probably on a sandbar, using wooden poles to hold or push against the rafts. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Factory workers using a pulley to load castings onto a table at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory produced tractors (including Farmall A... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
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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: | 1895 |
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Description: | A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine. |
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Description: | Three barbers stand in the barber shop at the Princess Martha Hotel. |
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. |
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