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Sedgwick County 4-H Band

Date: 1929
Description: 4-H band from Sedgewick County, Kansas. The band attended the International Harvester livestock show and Boys & Girls Club conclave.
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Agricultural Extension Lecture to Schoolchildren

Date: 02 1915
Description: International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department employee J.E. Waggoner delivers a lecture to children and farmers assembled at Providence School....
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Townspeople Assembled in front of One-Room Schoolhouse

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: Townspeople and a Ford automobile in front of a one-room schoolhouse in rural Alabama. The original caption reads: "This school house at Alpine, Ala., is a...
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International D-15-M Station Wagon at Riding Academy

Date: 1940
Description: Female students and a horse next to, and inside of, an International D-15-M station wagon ("woody") used for transportation at the Clearbrook Riding Academ...
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Employee(?) Instruction at St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill

Date: 1930
Description: Employees(?) learning about a chain drive gear at the St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill. Portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and an advertising p...
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School Boys Tying Knots

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Description: School boys of various ages stand at the front of a classroom tying knots, while female students look on from their desks.
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School Boys Making the Frame of a Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two boys at work indoors constructing the wooden frame of a fly trap at their school.
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School Children Eating

Date: 1919
Description: Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t...
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African American School Band

Date: 1914
Description: African-American school band assembled in a lecture hall at the Piney Woods Country Life School with Agricultural Extension Department workers and charts i...
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School Bus Picks up Rural Students

Date: 04 14 1938
Description: International D-30 school bus with Hicks body picking up a boy and girl outside a rural house.
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Children Exiting School Bus

Date: 04 06 1938
Description: Children getting off an International D-30 school bus in front of a rural farmhouse. The bus served Washington township in Grant County, Indiana. The bus f...
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Boy Standing by International School Bus

Date: 03 28 1938
Description: Boy with a book and lunch pail waiting as an International D-30-B or D-35-B school bus pulls up in front of his rural farmhouse. Another mischievous lad is...
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Alexander Legge

Date: 12 03 1930
Description: Alexander Legge (1866-1933) sitting with Miss Florence Melchert, an "entertainment" provided by International Harvester for 4-H Club delegates. Miss Melch...
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Home Economics — Cooking Class

Date: 1922
Description: Female students in a home economics cooking class at the School of Agriculture in Olds, Alberta, Canada.
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Pupils Learning About Thrift

Date: 1919
Description: Students are raising their arms as an instructor is discussing the merits of thrift. The instructor is pointing to chalkboard illustrations of a well groom...
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Directing an "Action Song"

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly...
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Children Performing May-Pole Dance

Date: 1919
Description: School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance.
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Little Girl with Rooster

Date: 1920
Description: Portrait of a young girl sitting on a stool holding a rooster in her lap, in front of Sunnyside School. The girl was participating in a third year "living ...
Book or Pamphlet

International School Buses

Date: 1940
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International school buses. Cover features a photographic illustration of school children boarding a bus for the...
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New Female Employee Training

Date: 01 13 1941
Description: A group of new female factory workers receiving their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for making ...

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