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Filter: Year of 1920-1929
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Man butchering a hog, which is hanging on a meat hook. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International engines. Includes illustrations of the engines' farm uses, including pumping water, washing clothes, and operating a c... |
| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no impr... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering engines. Includes photographic illustrations of an engine powering a water pump, washing machine, and cement mixer... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John Endres feeding the chickens in the farmyard with her dog. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood. |
| Date: | 10 22 1922 |
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| Description: | Two men are unloading silage from a wagon into a silo filler on the farm of Adolph Eichherst. The silo filler is hooked up to a belt for power. Original ca... |
| Date: | 11 12 1924 |
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| Description: | Brick barn and silo. Two men are using a 15-30 tractor to power a silo filler. |
| Date: | 10 22 1922 |
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| Description: | Man in field loading a horse-drawn wagon with silage corn. |
| Date: | 05 1924 |
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| Description: | Helen Holden Besemer sitting in a wooden chair to candle eggs at Holden Poultry Farm. |
| Date: | 06 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress sitting indoors to candle eggs at the Holden Farm. Cartons of eggs are piled on a table to her left, and household furniture is in ... |
| Date: | 06 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress is standing behind a table at the Holden Farm while packing eggs into cardboard holders. The holders are piled on a candling table ... |
| Date: | 05 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman using a metal pail to feed a mixed flock of chickens in front of several wooden farm buildings, and what appears to be a garden plot. |
| Date: | 07 22 1923 |
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| Description: | Chickens gathering around a woman near a poultry house (or chicken coop) as she is feeding the flock from a metal pail. A man is walking down a path in the... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing with two children in a poultry yard, feeding chicks and a hen from a coffee can. Several farm buildings are in the background. |
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