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Metal Scrap Drives

Date: 1914
Description: Metal collecting site located in Friedenau (Berlin). Separating pieces of iron.
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Women with Metal Parts at West Pullman Works

Date: 1930
Description: Three women are posing while holding metal parts manufactured at West Pullman Works.
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Woman on Farmhouse Porch

Date: 1920
Description: A woman wearing a dress and apron washes her hands in a metal bucket set on a table on a farmhouse porch. Multiple metal pails with handles and a milk pail...
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Ford Trimotor Monoplane

Date: 10 20 1928
Description: Interior view from front of a Ford all-metal trimotor monoplane with ten passengers sitting inside.
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Teacher and Students participating in World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Eight North Bright School pupils and teacher filling International truck and trailer with scrap metal collected for salvage drive during Governor Julius P....
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Woman Throwing Out Wash Water

Date: 1925
Description: Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse.
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Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: View of a woman working in a room at a dairy with a McCormick-Deering Primrose cream separator. There are metal milk cans on shelves behind her.
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Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: View of a woman working in a room at a dairy with a McCormick-Deering Primrose cream separator. There are metal milk cans on shelves behind her.
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Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 1923
Description: Mrs. Waggoner steadying a metal pail on the platform of a cream separator as it is collecting cream at International Harvester's demonstration farm. Milk i...
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Woman Using Cream Separator

Date: 10 1923
Description: Mrs. Waggoner straining milk from a bucket into an electric cream separator using a piece of cheesecloth. A metal bucket is standing on a platform and a me...
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Woman Hauling Water

Date: 1920
Description: A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house.
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Elderly Couple Sitting on Steps of House

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Description: A portrait of an elderly couple sitting on steps leading into a frame house. On the right is a metal structure that is probably part of a windmill.
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Woman Using Fruit Press

Date: 06 1923
Description: A woman using a Dilver (fruit press) to juice fruit into a metal bowl on a tabletop.
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group Posing Outdoors

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Description: Three Ho-Chunk men wearing hats and a Ho-Chunk woman wrapped in a shawl are posing outdoors sitting on a bench in front of a corrugated metal building.
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Young Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: A young woman wearing a dress and a pearl necklace fills a metal pail marked "School" from a cream separator. Additional milk pails are on the floor beside...
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U.S. Mint

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Description: A view of the Coining Room, where women sit at long tables, weighing out metal. Each woman has a balance and other tools at her station. A male supervisor ...
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Women Outdoors with Sod Poultry House

Date: 1925
Description: A woman uses a metal pail to feed a flock of White Wyandotte chickens near what appears to be a sod chicken coop.
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Woman with Poultry Flock

Date: 07 22 1923
Description: Chickens gathering around a woman near a poultry house (or chicken coop) as she is feeding the flock from a metal pail. A man is walking down a path in the...
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Canning Chicken

Date: 05 1924
Description: Helen Holden using a pair of tongs to remove a can of chicken from a metal container on Holden Poultry Farm.
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Woman Feeding Chickens

Date: 07 22 1923
Description: A woman stands outside a wooden shed while feeding a flock of chickens from a metal bucket. Several small chicken coops stand alongside the shed.

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