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School Boys Raising a Garden

Date: 04 18 1917
Description: Young boys digging a garden in an urban setting on "Mowhawk Street near Larrabee." Original caption reads: "Newberry School boys who have gotten into the h...
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Parade of Wagons Picking Up New McCormick Machinery

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Description: Elevated view of a parade of farmers and young children with horse-drawn wagons picking up their new McCormick machinery. They are parked along a rural dir...
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American House

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Description: Two men are sitting in a carriage in front of a Madison hotel known as both the Flom Hotel and the American House. The Flom Hotel, built in 1865, was locat...
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Street Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Small town business district with a group of men and women posed on the board sidewalk on the right. Another group of men and boys are on and around a trac...
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Two Men with Horse-Drawn Vehicles

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Description: Horse and buggy of a man from town meets the road cart/sulky of the farmer. People are standing in a field in the background.
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Boys at Work on Urban Garden

Date: 04 18 1917
Description: Boys from the Newberry School and Boys' Club No. 2 work on ground loaned by the Board of Education for a city garden.
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Hay Market

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Description: Elevated view of horse-drawn carts filled with hay and parked in rows at a market. Men stand between the rows, and houses surround the market square.
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Exterior of Magdeburg Branch House

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior of International Harvester's Magdeburg branch house in Germany, with trucks, a tractor pulling three loaded carts, and a horse-drawn wagon piled w...
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Livestock Judging at Union High School Agricultural Fair

Date: 10 05 1912
Description: Elevated view of crowd around horses during livestock judging. In the background are fields, a road, power lines, and in the far distance along the horizon...
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Breaking the Blockade

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector....
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Manure Spreaders on Display in Town

Date: 03 15 1911
Description: View down street of large group of men in small town with over 15 manure spreaders on display. On the left near an intersection is a firehouse with a tower...
Painting

The Blacksmith Shop

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Description: A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses.
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McLean Brothers Dealership in Australia

Date: 1900
Description: Block of city buildings in Australia, including McLean Brothers, "ironmongers, iron and machinery merchants." McLean Brothers was a general agent or dealer...
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Group in Front of Buildings

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Description: View from road of several men, a woman, girl and young boys posed in front of buildings in a lumber town, probably McKenna. There are two blurred images in...
Magazine or Periodical

The New Year—1869

Date: 01 1869
Description: Engraving after a drawing by Winslow Homer showing a crowned Baby New Year riding a velocipede through a hoop held by a woman, as the Grim Reaper, on the r...
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Main Street

Date: 05 12 1902
Description: View down Main Street, with businesses on both sides. A row of trees acts like a median along the road. Ernst Goetsch is standing in the middle of the road...
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Man on Binder on Horse-Drawn Transport Truck

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards a man on a McCormick binder on a transport truck. Nearby is a horse-drawn carriage. In the far background is a town and a large body...
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Exterior of Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of dealership. Bales of manila for twine are on a cart on the sidewalk in front. Three men stand at the corner of the building on the left, n...
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Dickey Chapelle with Donkey

Date: 1945
Description: Dickey Chapelle wearing a heavy coat and kneeling to feed hay to a donkey next to a cart on a street in a city in Geurande, France. She has a camera around...
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Men Loading Eggs at Feed Store

Date: 1930
Description: View across road towards two men standing on a loading dock with crates of eggs near the back of a truck. The sign above the loading dock reads: "Missouri ...

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