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Deering Works Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of...
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Women in the Hops Field

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Description: A group of women posing amidst the hops plants in a field. Most of the women are wearing hats, aprons, and dresses. Some have picnic baskets and many are e...
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Elinora, Nellie Arms and Bonnie Childs

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Description: Posing together from left to right are Elinora, Nellie Arms (aunt of Lewis Arms), and Bonnie Childs. They are at Nellie and Bernard Arms's farm. There is a...
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Nellie Arms and Her Cat

Date: 10 24 1954
Description: Nellie Arms, aunt of Lewis Arms, holds a cat outdoors at the farm she shared with her husband Bernard.
Postcard

Train Making a Stop at the Breed Station

Date: 1943
Description: Photographic postcard of a train stopped at the Chicago & North West railroad station. A small group of people stand in the grass waiting beside the tracks...
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Willms Home with Cigar Workers

Date: 1890
Description: Cigar workers on the sidewalk in front of the Willms home, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are young men and older boys, some in aprons. Anna Willms (b. 1881) a...
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Group in front of Boarding House

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Description: A group of people pose in front of a boarding house. One man on the right is holding up a small child. There is a large pile of lumber or fuelwood next to ...
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Hops Farming

Date: 1880
Description: Group portrait of men and women posing in hop field. Most of the women are wearing aprons, and some of them are holding plants from the harvest. In the for...
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Mrs. William Krueger

Date: 1899
Description: Portrait of Mrs. William Krueger, sitting, with a potted geranium plant placed on a table behind her. A blanket is hanging behind her as a backdrop.
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Krueger House

Date: 1899
Description: Sarah Krueger sitting with a dog on the porch of Alex Krueger's house.
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People in Yard in front of a Frame House

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Description: Man posing standing and holding/sharpening a scythe, with a dog sitting nearby. Three children are sitting in the grass, and a woman is standing in front o...
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People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Group of people posing in front of frame house. Two men, two girls, and a woman are standing, and two boys are sitting on the ground. They are all wearing ...
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Group of People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of people posing in front of a frame house with a porch covered in vines. In the foreground four young girls are in front of a fence, and tw...
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Family in Front of House

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Description: Group portrait of people posing near a picket fence in front of a frame house. On the left is a single horse with a fly-net pulling a buggy. A man with a b...
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Group of People in Yard in Front of House

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Description: Two groups of people are posing in yard. On the left a man and woman are posing sitting, with the man resting his hand on a dog. Standing around them are t...
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Large Group of People in Yard Outside Log House

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Description: Large group, thirty or so, of men, women, children and infants posing standing in the yard of a house in front of and behind a wooden fence. In the center ...
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Garden and Farm Buildings

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Description: View from garden towards two women posing standing near the fence for a garden. Behind them, three men are displaying four horses. Another person in the ba...
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Family with Horse-Drawn Plow

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Description: A woman and child are posing sitting on a plow steered by a man standing on their right. The two horses are standing on the left. In the background is a tr...
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Women Picking Vegetables

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Description: A woman on the left is standing holding an umbrella looking down at a woman who is bending over picking vegetables. In the background on the right is a hou...
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Tim Finley Farm after Cyclone

Date: 06 12 1915
Description: People standing among the broken remains of the Tim Finley farm after a killer tornado. A woman in the center is standing on a mattress. Two people were ki...

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