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| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to pull a wagon at the Sells Floto circus. Children and adults are walking nearby, and a tent and l... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of farmers are using a McCormick wire grain binder, built in 1876. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original caption reads: "The im... |
| Date: | 07 1908 |
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| Description: | Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store. A woman is walking on the street nearby, and a boy or man w... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A librarian checks out a book to a young girl, while other children sit at tables reading in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seat... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children sit at tables in a library reading books and magazines while a librarian looks on from her circulation desk. When it opened in 1938, th... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Chien (vicinity) about 1895-1900. Shell buyers with their launches and barges docked at shoreline. Freshwater clam shells were used in the pearl... |
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| Description: | Clam camp housing and tents with forest in the background. Four men are sitting on the right, in the center are two women, one standing and one sitting, an... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A man crouches beside a McCormick single-unit milker outside a barn, while a young girl standing next to him holds the tubes of another milker in her hands... |
| Date: | 10 08 1925 |
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| Description: | View from distance of men and a young boy standing in front of piles of bags filled with wheat and covered with tarps near a brick building. The photograph... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Huet Freeman of the Southern Mutual Help Association of Louisiana and two of his children after winning three-quarters of a million dollars for farm worker... |
| Date: | 12 21 1951 |
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| Description: | The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli... |
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| Description: | The strike against the Kohler Company, which began in 1954, was one of the longest strikes in American history. Many of the strikers' fellow unionists supp... |
| Date: | 10 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Herman Fischer family. Emmy Lou, 16, and Herman, Jr., 20, are standing in the back row. Seated in the second row are Grandma Emma Fischer,... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | The winner of the 1957 Soap Box Derby, Van Steiner, receiving champion's kiss from Barbara Harned, wife of "Wisconsin State Journal writer, who was a forme... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Family portrait of a large group of people posed on a lawn. In the background is a tent or open-sided awning. Harry Dankoler, wearing a hat a eyeglasses, i... |
| Date: | 08 02 1903 |
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| Description: | Group posed on the lawn of Uncle Herman's house. Three women are seated on a platform swing while others are sitting on the lawn and the porch. Harry Danko... |
| Date: | 09 1903 |
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| Description: | Harry Dankoler, wearing a hat and holding the shutter release mechanism in his right hand, is stepping in to stop a possibly posed fight between Syl and Ba... |
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| Description: | Four young boys, with Syl being the youngest, posing in Harry Dankoler's photography studio in front of a backdrop. One of the boys is holding a feather du... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Man and boy (possibly father and son) on farmland near a cornfield operating a horse-drawn No. 3 Clover Leaf manure spreader. A barn is in the background. |
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| Description: | Several men are working on the railroad depot in Camp Dix, which was operated by Adams Express Company. Other men and a woman are standing near the buildin... |
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