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Man Posing in Old Car

Date: 1918
Description: A man poses behind the wheel of a car in the foreground. In the background on the left two women are on the porch of a building with a false front. In the ...
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Farmhouse Facade

Date: 1915
Description: View across lawn toward the front of the house, with a stone front porch and a balcony above. A fence is along the right and left bordering the yard. Field...
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Herbert Krueger

Date: 06 27 1910
Description: A young boy with bare feet and wearing overalls is sitting on a chair in front of a porch enclosure or support with decorative latticework on the sides. Th...
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Billings Station

Date: 1922
Description: Angled view across two sets of railroad tracks toward a depot, which has numerous carts lined up on the platform. On the far right a man is standing next t...
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This Train For Racine

Date: 1900
Description: Several men pose on a station platform in front of a locomotive and railroad car at the end of the railroad tracks. A man standing in the center is wearing...
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Farmhouse with Windmill Tower

Date: 1915
Description: View across fence toward a house, with a windmill in the side yard. Pumping machinery is under the windmill tower support. An outbuilding is in the backgro...
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Excavation in Circular Mound

Date: 11 01 1947
Description: Men are working in a hole dug in the ground, which is roped off with stakes. Caption reads: "Excavation in circular mound on R. J. Harker property, Frost W...
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Special Orchard Disk Harrow for California (Experimental)

Date: 09 21 1926
Description: A man driving a tractor is using a disk harrow in a field. In the background is an IH plant.
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View of River

Date: 07 31 1920
Description: View down river, with trees along the banks.
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Irrigation Operation

Date: 01 05 1929
Description: Men with hoses are hosing water into an irrigation canal.
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Man Using Continuous Track Tractor for Road Construction

Date: 06 12 1929
Description: A man is driving a continuous track tractor to pull a man operating road grading equipment on a road.
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Horse-Drawn New 4 Cultivator

Date: 12 12 1919
Description: Rear view of a horse-drawn cultivator with fertilizer attachments working in a field. Power lines and a fence are along the field on the right. Buildings a...
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Garden near Plant Buildings

Date: 05 28 1918
Description: View of garden, with industrial buildings in the background. Two men are standing near a building in the background.
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Neighborhood on a Hill

Date: 06 10 1918
Description: Slightly elevated view across yards and fences of a neighborhood on a hill. A man is standing in the yard in the center just beyond a fence.
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Offset Rigid Tractor Disk Harrow (Exp.)

Date: 04 04 1928
Description: Disk Harrow drawn by tractor sitting in a field, with a view of neighborhood beyond. Children are watching in the background. A fence and houses are behind...
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Spring Ground Preparation

Date: 05 06 1929
Description: View towards a man using a Farmall tractor to pull an agricultural implement in a field.
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Farm in Valley

Date: 09 01 1928
Description: View down hill towards farm buildings in a valley. Hill and mountains are in the distance.
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View of Countryside

Date: 09 01 1928
Description: View across overgrown field towards a cornfield behind a fence, with mountains in the far background.
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Road Scenes

Date: 10 09 1928
Description: View down road. Rock has been blasted away to form the roadway. Trees are on top of the rock formations on both sides of the road.
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Town in Sahara Desert

Date: 01 30 1929
Description: View of distant town, perhaps in the Sahara Desert in Tanganyika, Africa.

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