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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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
| 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: | 05 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office. |
| Date: | 09 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Farmer Charles Nelson, carries a pail in front of the door to his barn. His 245 acre farm was southwest of Lake Wingra near Madison. It became the first pr... |
| Date: | 05 25 1928 |
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| Description: | ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men clearing area for playground at Burr Jones Field at 1800 E. Washington Street. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of a man operating a hammer mill powered by a McCormick Super W-4 tractor in the doorway of a barn. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers jackhammer through a sidewalk at the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers with hard hats at the World Trade Center. |
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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 ... |
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| Description: | Capitol Square with street sweepers and iron fence. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster featuring color illustation of three men and a dog watching a farmer harvest grain with a horse-drawn Deering Ideal grain binder. The me... |
| Date: | 06 29 1928 |
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| Description: | Group of Mexican workers posing in front of a large stack of hay. Most of the people are wearing hats, many of them sombreros, and worn clothing. Several p... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A girl and a boy doing field work beside a wagon. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Workers standing beside boiling vats at a sugar mill where the sap is boiled and made into sorghum molasses. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Three construction workers, two in the hole, and one above, digging at the World Trade Center construction site. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A farmer, standing near a barn and pitchfork for a portrait. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Men cutting and gathering grain by hand. One man appears to be holding a scythe, or possibly a cradle. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International Model G-61 truck parked on the side of a dirt road where several men spread gravel(?) for the Shenandoah Valley Pipe Company. |
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