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Family in Carriages with Barn

Date: 1878
Description: Barnyard, with what appears to be a pigyard littered with corncobs. It is enclosed with a solid board fence and has slop troughs made from hollowed logs. A...
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Herman Amberg Preus and Caroline Keyser Preus House

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Description: Wood frame house with carpenter's lace and family seated and standing to side of house in background. A windmill and small barn with cupola is in the right...
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Osage Ceremony

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Description: An Osage woman prepares to be married to the corn. A man leads her horse.
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Women and Sheep

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Description: View across pen of five women with a small dog sitting near a fence in a pen full of sheep and lambs. Cornstalks are scattered across the floor of the pen.
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Seminole Women Grinding Corn

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Description: A view of two Seminole Native American women grinding corn for "Sofka," a meat stew thickened with vegetables and meal. A man and dog are on the left. Capt...
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Grinding Masa

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Description: View of a woman kneeling and grinding corn by hand with the traditional mortar and pestle, the mano and metate. On the left a child is partially visible si...
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Woman with Squirrel

Date: 1920
Description: A young woman holding an ear of corn reclines on a bed while a squirrel sits on her thigh. The woman wears a heavy skirt, blouse, and needlework cloche hat...
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Panamanian Women Grinding Corn

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women grinding corn at Yawissa, near the Chucunaque River in Panama. Two women wearing wrapped fabric around their waists are grindin...
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Woman Posing with Cows

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a woman wearing a light-colored dress, apron, and a hat. She is standing holding a cow and a calf. In the background is a cornfield and...
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A Woman, A Girl and Some Chickens

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Description: Outdoor view of a woman and a girl posing standing in a yard. There are chickens and a wooden structure in the distance.
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Men and Women Posing with Horse-Drawn Wagon

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards a man standing at the side of a horse-drawn wagon in a cornfield. Three men and two women are sitting posing in the wag...
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The Judkins Family

Date: 1930
Description: Cora Judkins, kneeling, posing with her four daughters sitting in front of her. They are, from left, Bonnie, Leonore Judkins Middleton, Juanita and Blanche...
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Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1930
Description: Cora Judkins, standing, and an unidentified woman sitting on the ground, are holding ears of multicolored corn in their aprons as poults and a hen are gath...
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Mowing the Lawn

Date: 1930
Description: Juanita Judkins pushing a "Run Easy" reel lawn mower. She is wearing heavy fabric coveralls with wide legs which end at mid-calf, exposing silk stockings. ...

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