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Residential-Style Convent

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Description: View across field of grass toward the convent. The chapel is at the left, and there is an L-shaped housing structure, with porches on the first and second ...
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Bodette House

Date: 1932
Description: View of front of two-story house of neoclassical proportions with two front bay windows and porch with Italianate details.
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Mabel Crosby

Date: 1932
Description: Mrs. Mabel Crosby, the teacher at Peck School, poses at the side of a building. She is wearing eyeglasses, and a summer dress and hat.
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Students at Work

Date: 1932
Description: Students in the one-room Peck School read at their desks and sitting on a bench as their teacher, Mable Crosby, observes from the back of the room.
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Boy with Sheep

Date: 1932
Description: Gilbert Harvey, wearing a cap and bib overalls, standing in an open pasture with the sheep he raised as a 4-H project.
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Charles Suckow House

Date: 1932
Description: Flowers in a window box brighten the front of the modest one and one-half story house of Charles Suckow. His daughter Lilia was a student at the Peck Schoo...
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Lilia Suckow

Date: 1932
Description: Lilia Suckow, a student at Peck School, works in a tulip bed outside her house. Clothes dry on a line behind the house.
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Arthur Stubb

Date: 1932
Description: Arthur Stubb, 13, a student at Peck School, "dragging the field before the grain was planted." He poses wearing a cap, jacket and bib overalls, with the re...
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Electric Dynamo

Date: 1932
Description: An open wooden structure built over a small mill race supports a vertical water wheel. A large belt runs horizontally from the water wheel to a line shaft ...
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Sawmill

Date: 1932
Description: A steam tractor provides power for a portable sawmill owned by Jake Karken. The large sawblade is still as men pose for the photographer. There is a team o...
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Fred Price

Date: 1932
Description: Fred Price poses in a farmyard holding a grain cradle which was made by his father and had been in the family for 55 years. A small granary and another out...
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Crowd Waiting for the "Red Special"

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of a crowd waiting for the "Red Special," Socialist special train. Eugene V. Debs and others were speakers.

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