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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... |
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| Description: | Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Paving block cutters at work at the the Montello Granite Company. Two men holding large hammers are posing underneath a tarp which is shading large pieces ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
| 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: | 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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent. |
| Date: | 06 03 1935 |
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| Description: | Three Klein-Dickert Co. painters with two ladders are painting a house located at 2315 Rugby Row. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph showing a little girl sitting on the running board of an International R-series pickup truck and eating an apple while her father pick... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men cutting logs with a saw powered by an International Harvester gasoline engine on the farm of Casper Kaster. |
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