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Fourteen Foot Tomato Plant

Date: 09 27 1936
Description: Mr. Liebenberg standing on a ladder measuring a 14 foot tomato plant growing in his garden. Mrs. Liebenberg is standing beside the plant.
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Two Men with Oxen

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Description: Portrait of two men standing with two teams of oxen in front of a frame house and garden.
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Scarecrow

Date: 05 29 1960
Description: A homemade, sack-head scarecrow stands in a small garden.
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Home and Garden

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Description: Two women and a child are pictured in the yard of a home in a company town of Consolidated Coal Company. In front of the home, bean plants are being grown ...
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Farmhouse Garden

Date: 09 1923
Description: View from field of a farm property, including the farmhouse garden.
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Farm Scene

Date: 1905
Description: A man stands with a horse near a small barn. A buggy and wagon are parked nearby. There are two small sheds or outhouses near a garden plot and a haystack ...
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Bird's-Eye View of Town

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view from hill of the town and hills in the distance.
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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...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Sprouters

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with children raking, spading, and posing alongside a yard with newly planted seeds (Neig...
Photograph

Town Scene, Toward the Hotel

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Description: View over town, including hotel and church, towards the Mississippi River. The far shoreline and bluffs are in the distance.
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Elevated View of Town

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Description: Elevated view of Cassville, including the town hall and St. Peter's Church.
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Girls in a Garden

Date: 1910
Description: Four girls pose in a garden next to a house between the Post Office and Council Rooms on Main Street. Lillian Muller is seated on the ground. Behind her, p...
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Sid in his Backyard Garden

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Description: View across Sid's backyard, with Sid standing and wearing a Japanese kimono near one of his Japanese lanterns and a gate. In the background behind a fence ...
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Backyard at the Beginning of June

Date: 06 01 2015
Description: Elevated view of a woman, Solveig Quinney, pushing a wheelbarrow in her yard. Stepping stones in the lawn ring a garden plot. Other flowering bushes and pl...
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Picking Tomatoes in the Garden

Date: 08 07 2015
Description: Elevated view of a man, woman, and two young children standing in a garden. The woman is holding a green bowl filled with tomatoes, and a man and young gir...
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Eddie Patterson

Date: 06 26 1988
Description: A man is smiling while holding up a handful of greens from a garden. In the background, several people are standing in a lined. Caption reads: "Milwaukee r...
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Picking a Homegrown Peach

Date: 08 10 1957
Description: Edward H. Unger at 4606 Wallace Avenue on the East Side picks a peach from a tree in his backyard that he planted as a peach stone four years ago. His harv...

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