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Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well

Date: 04 1923
Description: A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background.
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Farmhouse on Hill

Date: 1900
Description: View up hill towards farmhouse. There is a woman using a hand-pump in the yard on the right.
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Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
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Middleton High School

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the Middleton High School.
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Young Girl Cooling Canned Corn

Date: 1925
Description: Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn.
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Engine-Powered Water Pump

Date: 10 1923
Description: A 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine powering a water pump outside of a building on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Horseback Rider at Eggert's Resort

Date: 1935
Description: View up hill of a man sitting on a horse in front of cabin with a log foundation. Two other unsaddled horses are also in the yard along with two dogs. Ther...
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Farm Hazard: Old Wooden Pump

Date: 1926
Description: A man pumps water from an old wooden pump into a tin cup. This photo was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrat...
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Deteriorated Farm Building

Date: 1915
Description: Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar...
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Eagle Corners School

Date: 1932
Description: Students and their teacher, Gladys Hofseth (back row, far right), pose outside Eagle Corners School. The school is a wood frame building with an enclosed p...
Postcard

Commercial Hotel

Date: 06 28 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of the exterior of the three-story Commercial Hotel. The building has a false front. Two women stand on the balcony and two men stand...
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Man at Water Pump

Date: 1965
Description: A man hand pumps water in the yard outside of White Station Freedom House. "In all the rural Freedom Houses (and all rural houses) wells and outhous...
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The Heritage Farm after the Tornado

Date: 09 21 1931
Description: View of damaged farmhouse and group of people sitting and standing outdoors. The roof was blown off and windows were shattered. Four women stand in the yar...
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Family in Front of their Home

Date: 1905
Description: View across yard of an unidentified family posing in front of their home. In the foreground is a hand-pump. From the left a young boy is sitting in a rocki...
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Back Porch

Date: 1925
Description: A hand pump and dinner bell flank the screen door of a porch at the Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder summer home at Pine Lake. The walls of the house are st...
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Farmhouse with Windmill Tower

Date: 1915
Description: View across fence toward a house, with a windmill in the side yard. Pumping machinery is under the windmill tower support. An outbuilding is in the backgro...

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