Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Family posed at board fence of brick house. Two woman, one holding a parasol, are standing in front of the fence on the left near the gate. Two men are sta... |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
Date: | 05 29 1912 |
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Description: | Farmer wearing a hat is walks=ing behind a horse-drawn Osborne spring tooth harrow in a field. Trees and a fence are in the background. |
Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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Description: | Chicago R&B singer Baby Huey standing barefoot on stage wearing an open green shirt on top of coveralls. A conga player, possibly Plato Jones, is visible o... |
Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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Description: | Chicago R&B act Baby Huey mid-performance viewed from stage left. Members of the horn section and percussionists are visible in front of and behind Baby Hu... |
Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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Description: | Chicago R&B singer Baby Huey leaning against a car with his trumpeter, (likely Rick Marcotte) and conga player, (possibly Plato Jones) who is wearing an Am... |
Date: | 12 21 1951 |
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Description: | The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Two views, one of a ferry and the other of a chain gang. The ferry operator poses with a man in his carriage on the ferry, with trees in the background. Th... |
Date: | 02 09 1915 |
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Description: | A man sits on a bale of cotton piled on top of wooden boards in a field. Two men stand near him and another man or young boy sits on a bale in the backgrou... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Group of men in a pen with livestock, including pigs, sheep, a cow, a donkey and horses. The livestock was owned by the Piney Woods Country Life School. |
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Description: | Photographic holiday card of an African American family posed over "Merry Christmas" wrapping paper in the background. Holly and bells appear overhead. Eac... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Men in a residential backyard using a hanging scale to weigh bales of cotton loaded on a wagon pulled by a team of work horses. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men with a horse-drawn mower in a field. One man is working with a hand implement in a pile of hay, and another is sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in the... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Construction crew and observers standing on a scaffold. Trees, a wooden tripod with a block and tackle and the roof of a house are visible in the backgroun... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Congressman David R. Obey and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office in the White House. The photograph is autographed for Obey: "Congratulations for 40... |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | String band consisting of seven inmates at Waupun State Prison. Three seated men hold guitars, three others hold violins and one standing man holds a cello... |
Date: | 09 30 1978 |
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Description: | Full-length group portrait of a bride and her mother and father walking towards the center aisle of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House as the ceremo... |
Date: | 09 30 1978 |
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Description: | Group portrait of some of the family of the bride at a wedding that took place at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. |
Date: | 12 12 1954 |
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Description: | Three-quarter-length group portrait of a bride and groom with three of his brothers. She is wearing a street-length dress of ivory florentine, black shell ... |
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