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Man Cutting Grass

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Description: A man cuts grass around a pole with a scythe.
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Mortar and Pestle

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Description: View of a mortar and pestle on a stool.
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Raking Lawn

Date: 1910
Description: Woman in hat and young girl raking the lawn.
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Man Sharpening Scythe

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Description: A man using a whetting stone to sharpen a scythe in a backyard.
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Barbershop Scene

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Description: Interior of a barbershop. Two barbers are shaving two men.
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Meters in the Powerhouse

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Description: Interior view ofm machinery inside a building. Identified as the interior of a powerhouse.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing in front of two wooden buildings, possibly a logging camp.
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Unidentified House with Cat

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Description: View from yard of a wooden house with a small porch. There is a cat sitting on a window sill.
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Peddlers

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Description: View towards two men sitting by a wagon with wares spread out on the ground. Probably peddlers with their products.
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Camp Cooking Items

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Description: View of a table with buckets, pots, and other objects on top of it in front of a tent.
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Boy Raking a Lawn

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Description: View towards a boy raking in a yard. There is a fence and a building on the right.
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Boys Cutting Lawn

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Description: Two boys attend to a lawn, one using a scythe to cut and the other raking the cut grass.
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Canoe Outdoors near House

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Description: A canoe rests on sawhorses in front of a stack of firewood and frame house.
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Canoe on Sawhorses

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Description: A canoe rests on sawhorses in front of a stack of firewood and frame house.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Men posed in a snow-covered loggers camp displaying three teams of two oxen and six teams of two horses.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posed standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Three men stand with teams of two horses.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logging tools in snow-covered logging camp in front of log buildings.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools while sitting and standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building and the woods.
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Two Women and Man Posed Outdoors

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Description: Two women and a man are posing standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a frame house. There is a hand-operated knife grinder in the yard.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of European Americans

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of an unidentified man and two women posing standing on the porch of a wooden house.

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