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Shooting at Pennies

Date: 1898
Description: Children shoot at pennies with arrows at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Inexpensive Poultry House

Date: 1914
Description: A young child feeding a flock of chickens outside of a poultry house. A farmhouse is in the background.
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Butch Quirk Riding Cub Cadet

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old student farmer John "Butch" Quirk planting rows of corn with the aid of his Cub Cadet tractor.
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Butch Quirk in the Classroom

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old student John "Butch" Quirk stands in a classroom surrounded by his seated classmates. The original magazine caption reads: "School Boy: '...
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Butch Quirk's Hands Holding Book

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old student John "Butch" Quirk's hands turn the pages of a book. The original magazine caption reads: "School Boy: 'Butch' Quirk is a bright ...
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Butch Quirk Drives a Cub Cadet

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old John "Butch" Quick is photographed driving a Cub Cadet tractor. This close-up captures one of Butch's hands on the steering wheel and the...
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Butch Quirk Returns Home

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old John "Butch" Quick is photographed returning to his house. Butch carries his jacket and books under his arm as he enters his house. The f...
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Butch Quick Carries Seed Bucket

Date: 04 1964
Description: Thirteen-year-old John "Butch" Quick carrying a bucket of seed toward his Cub Cadet tractor.
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Saving Rent Control

Date: 09 04 1949
Description: Emma Milton (left) of Omaha, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Union local 60, is seen here circulating a petition to save the rent control institute...
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Testing Seed Corn

Date: 1915
Description: Helen Thomas leans over papers on a desk in a classroom, reading the test of her father's seed corn. Another girl stands on the left, writing on a chalkboa...
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Children Playing Volleyball

Date: 1915
Description: A group of children playing volleyball during recess outside of a school building. Additional children are playing on a see-saw behind them.
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Child with International Harvester Toy Truck

Date: 02 26 1923
Description: Joseph Byron Young playing with a toy International truck in the yard of a farm.
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Women at IHC Agriculture Extension Lecture

Date: 1917
Description: Group of women, and a few children, seated in a meeting hall at an Agricultural Extension lecture on Home Economics. A woman at the front of the hall is po...
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Group of People Gathered Beside Train

Date: 1917
Description: Group of men, with a few women and children, gathered around a passenger train on a stop of the Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign.

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