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Farmer Harvests Grain on Steep Hill with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer harvesting grain on a hill or ridge with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder near Pittsburgh. In the background is a va...
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Herring-Curtiss Flying Machine

Date: 1909
Description: Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh...
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Breaker Boy

Date: 1902
Description: Andrew Chippa hired on with Markle & Co., miners of anthracite coal to pay off his father's debt of $54 to the company store since his father's death in th...
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Dumbbell Drill At Indian Industrial School

Date: 1900
Description: Female students performing a dumbbell drill inside the gymnasium at the Indian Industrial School.
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Club Drill at Indian Industrial School

Date: 1900
Description: Male students performing a club drill inside the gymnasium at the Indian Industrial School.
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Invincible Society Meeting at the Indian Industrial School

Date: 1900
Description: An Invincible Society meeting at the Indian Industrial School.
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Standard Society Meeting at Indian Industrial School

Date: 1900
Description: A Standard Society meeting at the Indian Industrial School.
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YMCA Meeting at the Indian Industrial School

Date: 1900
Description: A YMCA meeting at the Indian Industrial School.
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Chicken Farm and Coops in Farmyard

Date: 1905
Description: View of farmyard with a flock of chickens and several chicken coops in foreground. A farmhouse is in the background.
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Farm Scene with Grain Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Farm scene including a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder, people, a farmhouse, and a barn.
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McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Five men pose for a photograph around a McCormick grain binder in a field.
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Horse-Drawn McCormick Open Elevator (?) Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A farmer is operating what may be a McCormick open elevator (?) binder pulled by two horses in a field of grain on a gently sloping hillside.
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Steam Tractor Pulling Wagon and New Peerless Thresher

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men are posing on and around a steam tractor hooked up to a wagon and a New Peerless thresher.
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Cattle Grazing in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Landscape of a model farm (?) with cattle grazing in a field in the foreground. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, model farms were experimental fa...
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Cattle in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Cattle grazing in field. This may represent a model farm, an experimental farm of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Elevated View of Town

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of town and vicinity, perhaps taken from a hill, showing several buildings and the outlying rural area. Several of the buildings appear to be...
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Men Posing with Prize Cattle in Barnyard

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are standing and posing with prize cattle in between two farm buildings. This farmstead may be a model farm, an experimental farm of the late 19th ...
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Horse-Drawn Binder Pulling into Driveway of Farmstead

Date: 1900
Description: A man is driving a horse-drawn binder into the driveway of a farmstead. Another horse-drawn vehicle is partially visible in the driveway. This farmstead ma...
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Horse-Drawn McCormick Binder on Path under Railroad Bridge

Date: 1900
Description: A man is driving a horse-drawn McCormick binder down a path that runs underneath a railroad bridge.
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New Bridge

Date: 1900
Description: A view of the first span of the Berwick-Nescopeck bridge. Onlookers pose for the photograph in front of a fence and completed pilings stretch across the r...

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