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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Farm employee housing. Original caption reads: "employees cottages on Briarcliff Farms." Children are sitting on the porch of the house in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a two-story house with a front porch and an enclosed porch on the side. In the background is a barn or outbuilding. |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 10 14 1923 |
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| Description: | Men washing their faces with water in metal bowls set on a wooden bench outside a farmhouse. Two men are standing behind them, drying their hands on towels... |
| Date: | 10 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A group of men washing their hands in water bowls set on a wooden bench outside a farmhouse. A man is standing nearby while drying hands on a towel and a w... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine powering a water pump outside of a building on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from street of exterior of the Leslie Wilson residence, a large Victorian house, at 320 Superior Street. A sidewalk runs in front of the house and tre... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down an unpaved road with houses and shops on either side. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a two-story cheese factory. The building features a set of stairs leading to the second-floor entrance and three chimneys. There is a large pil... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from the foot of a bridge down Main Street. A car drives toward the bridge, and there is a plant sidewalk along the street on the right. Electric powe... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A rain barrel standing beneath a drain spout on a farmhouse. A barn is in the background. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of a condensery building. The building features two-stories, a crow-stepping roof, and a tall chimney exhausting smoke. A railr... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View from yard of blacksmith shop, a home, and a two-story building with a "Gold Medal Flour" sign. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A general store and gas station with a car parked in front. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a school with a gable roof with bell steeple. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from road of church. The church building features arched doors and windows, stained glass, and a bell steeple. There is a cemetery behind the... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the high school. The building features an arched doorway, a hip roof with three dormers on the front and one on the side, a domed steeple ... |
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