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Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Family Dinner
1956
The Ernst G. Kerns family, with Edna, Nancy, Ernest, and Maribeth sitting at a table.
Edna Kern Hauling Water
January 13, 1956
Edna Kern, wife of Ernest G. Kern, hauling water in buckets to the hen house.
Watering the Laying Hens
January 13, 1956
Edna Kern in the hen house watering the laying hens.
At the Mailbox
January 13, 1956
Edna Kern picking up the mail at the roadside mailbox.
Mrs. Edna Kern
January 13, 1956
Mrs. Edna Kern, a farm wife, standing in her kitchen holding a pie. Her husband is Ernest G. Kern.
Washing Windows
January 13, 1956
Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground.