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| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
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| Description: | Farm family posing around a house and yard, with the patriarch sitting in the seat of a mower behind two horses. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga... |
| Date: | 01 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Arnold S. Zander making slush for ice skating rink border at 175 Virginia Terrace. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family in front of large brick rural house that has shutters, elongated basement windows and large bay window. A man sits with a hand scythe at the right. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin... |
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| Description: | A young woman wearing a dress and a hat rakes leaves in a yard. In the background, a neighboring house is adorned with detailed fretwork brackets on an out... |
| Date: | 10 08 1899 |
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| Description: | Syl leaning on a spade outside in a yard. There is a fence and a house in the background. |
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| Description: | Conservationist Sigurd F. Olson pruning a tree in his Ely house yard. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A man and woman (possibly husband and wife) maintain a residential backyard. The man, wearing a bow tie, is mowing the lawn with a reel mower, while the wo... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across wooded yard towards a woman leaning over a washtub using a washboard and to wash sheets. Sheets are drying on a clothesline and a washtub of bo... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Class of children gathered outdoors around a table for a corn germination lesson. Original caption reads: "after the rag dolls are prepared they are immers... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Lutheran church with a fence and trees in front. There is a shed with a ladder propped against it behind the church. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron and holding a bowl is posing on the stairs of a cellar bulkhead on the side of a farmhouse. A bell on a wooden pole is next to the... |
| Date: | 10 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A man wearing overalls and a cap is using a saw powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to cut wood on International Harvester's Hinsdale expe... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and wide-brimmed hat is emptying water from one pail into another beside a hand-cranked well. The photograph was taken on the John ... |
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| Description: | Six men of the Spiegel family stand outdoors around a long wooden table butchering chickens. The table is covered with large steel pots and pieces of meat.... |
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