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Baseball Game in Farm Field

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Description: View from distance of group playing a game of baseball. Spectators sit in horse-drawn carriages. The game is being played in a farm field, with farm buildi...
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Carman River Duck Farm

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Description: Ducks congregate in the background on the left by the fence, near the trees. Two farm buildings and a wooden structure are on the right.
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Cowboys Standing in Front of the Ranch House

Date: 1908
Description: A group of men pose on horseback in front of the ranch house, with some men sitting in a the carriage. Behind the carriage are the outbuildings on the left...
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Cowboys at the 101 Ranch

Date: 1908
Description: Group portrait of cowboys with a roped steer. In the background are farm outbuildings. On the other side of the fence behind them is a dog. Most men are o...
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Cowboys and Cowgirls on Horses

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of men and women on horseback in a strem. On the shoreline at the right is a horse-drawn carriage . Trees are further down the shoreline, and...
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Picking Tobacco

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Description: Agricultural workers picking tobacco in a field in Havana, Cuba. A small agricultural hut or shed is nearby.
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Dipping Cattle at Sandy Coulee

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Description: Elevated view from hill of a herd of cattle. A ranch hand monitors the cattle in the fenced section, while one man watches from outside the pen. In the bac...
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Dipping Cattle at Sandy Coulee

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Description: Elevated view from hill of cattle in fenced areas. Horses and wagonsare on the left, along with a small log building with a smoking chimney. In the foregro...
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Shearing Sheep

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Description: Two men shearing sheep indoors. Two coats are hanging on the wall on the left. The shearers electrical system and/or motor that powers the electric razors ...
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Pigs at the Trough

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Description: Pigs eating at a trough. The sow eats at the left, taking up most of the scene, while her nine offspring (piglets) eat or stand to the right. Caption reads...
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Lorena Taylor Holloway

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Description: Lorena Taylor Holloway, Richard Quinney's maternal grandmother, standing in a farmyard with a building, milkcans and a fenced field in the background.
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Green House Interior

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Description: A view of the interior of the green house. Caption reads: "Hyde Park Green House. Muskogee, Okla."
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Rounding-Up Horses

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Description: Elevated view of ranch hands rounding up horses. There are approximately two dozen men in two clusters: five are in the foreground in front of the herd and...
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Saddling and Packing the Horses

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Description: Three ranch hands saddling and packing a horse in an enclosed fence area. One man has his foot pushing against the horse while tightening the rope. Three o...
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View of Country Town

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Description: Distant view of a country town from across a pasture with rolling hills in the background. Caption reads, "Sussex, N.J."
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Stream Bed and Country Road

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Description: View looking north from a covered bridge, including a rocky stream-bed and a tree-lined dirt road with houses and other wooden buildings. Caption reads, "V...
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Nazi Youth Camp

Date: 1945
Description: Snapshot of a Nazi Youth camp found by Sigurd Olson during his travels in Germany, either late in 1945 or early in 1946.
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Bethany Orphans' Home

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Description: A view from Machinery Hall, looking east, of Bethany Orphans' Home. Children observing and playing with a group of cows through the fence, with some child...
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Workers' Unity House Garden

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Description: A view of the garden, with four men tending to the plants. In the background to the left are two large outbuildings connected by a smaller structure.
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Workers' Unity House Garden

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Description: A view of the garden, with various structures in the background.

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