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Residential Housing

Date: 1936
Description: View down road of mass-produced residential housing with farm in background.
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L.E. Johnson and B.F. Halin

Date: 1876
Description: Family, including a woman, young man and man sitting around table in a yard, with a two-story stone house with a porch on at least two sides. A young girl ...
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Boy Driving a Goat Cart

Date: 1900
Description: Boy, identified as Joe, driving a goat pulling a cart.
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Abandoned Farm with Overgrown Yard

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: An abandoned farm with overgrown foliage. In the background is a farmhouse. The doorway is detailed with decorative pilasters or engaged columns flanking t...
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Thomas and Florence Quinney's Farmhouse

Date: 1920
Description: Thomas (Tom) and Florence Quinney standing in front of their farmhouse which has a climbing vine growing on it.
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Quinney Family

Date: 1923
Description: Katherine (Kate) Quinney and her brothers, Thomas (Tom) and Willam (Bill), standing in a yard.
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Landscaping of Legge Memorial Cottage

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior of cottage and garden landscaping on the Katherine Legge Memorial Farm.
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Child with International Harvester Toy Truck

Date: 02 26 1923
Description: Joseph Byron Young playing with a toy International truck in the yard of a farm.
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Elinora, Nellie Arms and Bonnie Childs

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Description: Posing together from left to right are Elinora, Nellie Arms (aunt of Lewis Arms), and Bonnie Childs. They are at Nellie and Bernard Arms's farm. There is a...
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Nellie Arms and Her Cat

Date: 10 24 1954
Description: Nellie Arms, aunt of Lewis Arms, holds a cat outdoors at the farm she shared with her husband Bernard.
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Rain Barrel

Date: 1923
Description: A rain barrel standing beneath a drain spout on a farmhouse. A barn is in the background.
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Man Holding Dairy Cow

Date: 06 03 1929
Description: A man wearing a hat and overalls holding a dairy cow in front of a farmhouse. Trees, a barn with a silo, and other dairy cows are seen in the background. T...
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Farmhouse and Farm Buildings

Date: 06 1923
Description: View across lawn towards a farmhouse, with a barn in the background. The yard has trees and shrubs near the porch. There is a fence along a road on the lef...
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Ramshackle Farm Buildings

Date: 04 06 1926
Description: View across road of a deteriorating barn and a few sheds. In the background is a young child standing in the yard of a farmhouse. Original caption reads, "...
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Water Tank and Wind Mill

Date: 1920
Description: Water tank and wind mill among farm buildings. Original caption reads: "Concrete base for water tank and concrete walk to barn yard. Sterling Holt's farm, ...
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Fenced-In Farmhouse

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Description: Farmhouse with a porch in front and farm buildings in the back. Thee is a fence around the farmhouse yard. Original caption reads: "Seven room house of S. ...
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across dirt road of farmyard. A man on the left stands with two horses in front of a barn. In the center there appears to be two women sitting in a b...
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across field and fence towards a frame house and a barn in the countryside. There is a dog sitting on the porch.
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Farrington Family

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Description: Family group posing in front of wooden farm buildings. A man is sitting in a wagon pulled by a team of two horses. An older woman, a young girl, and three ...
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Group of People Posing in front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of a man and woman posing sitting in chairs, with a young boy and a dog posing between them. An older boy is standing to their right holding...

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