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Circus Performers and Airplane

Date: 1930
Description: A giant and other circus performers, including Harry and Daisy Earles, posing in front of a Midwest Air Transport airplane while a crowd is watching from b...
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West Pullman Works Cafeteria

Date: 1930
Description: Male and female factory and office workers sitting in the cafeteria at International Harvester's West Pullman Works.
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Manufacturing Binder Canvases at McCormick Works

Date: 1930
Description: Female workers inserting wooden slats into canvas for grain binders in the McCormick Works Twine Mill. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Ma...
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Stand Rock

Date: 1930
Description: A man in Native American clothing is standing on the ledge near Stand Rock. Two women are watching from the ground below.
Postcard

Christmas Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with a white and metallic gold border depicting Santa Claus handing a doll to a girl as a boy is looking on from the background. The child...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with a father and mother seated in chairs watching their baby play with a ball. A decorated Christmas tree is in the background. Other toy...
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Group Portrait of the Wisconsin Rural Mail Carriers

Date: 1930
Description: Large group portrait of the Wisconsin Rural Mail Carriers showing men, women, and a few children on the front steps of, and in front of, a brick and browns...
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Group Portrait of the Wisconsin Rural Mail Carriers

Date: 1930
Description: Large group portrait of the Wisconsin Rural Mail Carriers Association showing men, women, and a few children on the front steps of, and in front of, a bric...
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Group Portrait of the Wisconsin Rural Mail Carriers

Date: 1930
Description: Large group portrait of the Wisconsin Rural Mail Carriers Association showing men, women, and a few children on the front steps of, and in front of, a bric...
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Picnic Grove

Date: 1930
Description: Students of the Mayo School, District No. 1, have gathered with their families for a picnic at a grove on the Deerskin River. Automobiles are parked under ...
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Scene at Dells Farm Resort

Date: 1930
Description: Dells Farm Resort with an elevated view of a multi-room cottage with an outhouse located under the balcony on the right. Two women sit around a table in th...
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Three Women Posing on Tractor Pulling Potato Digger

Date: 1930
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of three women posing on a tractor pulling a potato digger outdoors in a potato field on the farm of L. Wilson. One woma...
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Dressing a Deer

Date: 1930
Description: An American Indian woman is bending over the carcass of a young deer on the ground in a wooded area. A man, far right, is looking at the camera while holdi...
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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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Cruise Ship in Port

Date: 1930
Description: Well-dressed men and women have gathered on the deck of a cruise ship. The swimming pool in the foreground is covered with rope netting. Four dorade boxes ...
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Woman with Doll

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified woman is holding a doll while standing beside an open glass topped display case. She is in a gallery or museum, with paintings hanging on t...
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Leonore with Parasol

Date: 1930
Description: Leonore Middleton posing outdoors, wearing a large hat with a Japanese parasol resting on her left shoulder. She is wearing a light-colored dress with a be...
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Group Portrait

Date: 1930
Description: A group of two men, two women and four children in traditional dress are posing in front of the door of a brick dwelling. Three of the children are sitting...
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Algerian Woman

Date: 1930
Description: A woman is posing sitting in the doorway of a brick building. She has facial tattoos and is wearing a head scarf over her braided hair.
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Two Girls

Date: 1930
Description: Two young girls are posing outdoors wearing traditional dress. The girl on the left is standing and leaning against the stone wall behind her, and the seco...

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