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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back... |
| Date: | 04 1911 |
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| Description: | Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers standing on the barge-mounted, steam-driven pile driver at work on the coffer dam. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two men standing in front of two cars, one pointing a handgun at the ground and the other looking at the camera. Each man is holding a bottle, possibly ful... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still from the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reap... |
| Date: | 07 31 1941 |
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| Description: | People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A manager pays a field worker on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Mr. Monroe paying the field workers." |
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| Description: | An outdoor portrait of a large group of men, women, and children on a trail or path among trees. Possibly a family reunion or other gathering. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A woman is sitting behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor for a demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.... |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of a man and woman posed sitting with a young girl standing between them. A dog is lying on the ground. The woman and girl are wearing dre... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Women bringing lunch to the men working in the field. The men are harvesting grain using a horse-drawn grain binder. |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch stand near a wooden bridge, holding canes, in a wooded area blanketed in snow. There is a hat on top of one of the posts on t... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | A group of young men crowd around a campfire in the Sound Stage campground. In the background is a truck and a station wagon near men who appear to be sett... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat, shorts, and fringed vest, with a pipe strung onto hit belt loop, dances among a crowd of other audience members at the Sound Storm mus... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | Two young female audience members, one wearing a paisley print dress, the other wearing an American flag print dress, sit in the camping area smoking marij... |
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