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Blackhawk Country Club "Children's Day" Dress Up

Date: 07 06 1932
Description: Blackhawk Country Club dress up day for women titled "Children's Day." Women are dressed in children's costumes and are eating ice cream cones.
Photograph

View of the Dining Tent

Date: 1876
Description: Quite possibly this is the "View of the Dining Tent" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Guard" ...
Photograph

Fish Boil Fire

Date: 1967
Description: Outdoor view of two pots used for a fish boil. One pot is engulfed in flames and children are running from the area.
Photograph

Fueling Fish Boil Fire

Date: 1967
Description: A man fueling a fire for a fish boil, as people look on.
Photograph

Pfc. Howard A. Endres

Date: 05 20 1945
Description: Pfc. Howard A. Endres standing in line for his final meal at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, before being discharged at the end of World War II.
Book or Pamphlet

35 - Man Feeding Angora Rabbits

Date: 1943
Description: Man feeding angora rabbits in their hutches. Text on page says, "Fütterung".
Book or Pamphlet

36 - Woman Feeding Angora Rabbits

Date: 1943
Description: Woman feeding angora rabbits in their hutches.
Book or Pamphlet

39 - Man Preparing Animal Food

Date: 1943
Description: Man working with vats for preparation of angora rabbit food.
Book or Pamphlet

40 - Man Preparing Animal Food

Date: 1943
Description: Man working with vats for preparation of angora rabbit food.
Photograph

Soldiers Shucking Corn

Date: 1942
Description: Three soldiers, formerly International Harvester employees and dealers, sitting on wooden crates to shuck ears of corn near a doorway. The men likely belon...
Poster

"Don't Waste Food While Others Starve!"

Date: 1917
Description: United States Food Administration poster depicting a woman holding a crying infant on her shoulder with one arm, and her other arm around a young girl who ...
Photograph

Russian Children

Date: 1918
Description: Russian children lined up on a board sidewalk to receive leftovers from a man standing outside the 310th United States Army Engineer corps mess hall. Some ...
Photograph

Russian Children

Date: 1918
Description: Russian children lined up on a board sidewalk to receive leftovers from a man standing outside the 310th United States Army Engineer corps mess hall. Some ...
Photograph

Mess Hall and Tents

Date: 1918
Description: Soldiers standing around portable stoves at the mess hall for American troops. Also shows the bench seated tables and tents used by soldiers.
Photograph

Virgil Taylor and Three Men

Date: 
Description: Indoor group portrait of four European American men posing sitting at a table and eating a meal in a wooden building with exposed walls and ceiling. The ma...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Unidentified People at a Picnic

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a group having a picnic in a garden. Women and children are sitting around blankets on the ground, and women and men are standing...
Photograph

Group of Women and Girls near Octagonal Building

Date: 
Description: View of women and girls sitting on the lawn under trees near an octagonal building. They are all eating what appears to be ice cream.
Photograph

Drying Jerky

Date: 1910
Description: An Indian man and boy posing next to a birch frame used for drying jerky.
Photograph

Grouse Feeding

Date: 1935
Description: A flock of grouse are feeding from a wooden feeder which is protected by a rough, three sided log shelter with a shed roof and walls of corn stalks. A desc...
Photograph

Cookhouse or Field Kitchen

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers are standing around while a cook is working at the outdoor field kitchen on the front during World War I.

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