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Cha-Cha-Cha

Date: 1961
Description: A Prairie Chicken performing his Booming Dance.
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Farm

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Description: View across field towards a farm with a house, two barns, chickens, a windmill, and two smaller buildings.
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A Woman, A Girl and Some Chickens

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Description: Outdoor view of a woman and a girl posing standing in a yard. There are chickens and a wooden structure in the distance.
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Woman with Chickens

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Description: View uphill towards a woman standing next to a wooden structure in a yard with a dog, and chickens behind a wire fence.
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Dog on a Stump

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Description: View of a dog sitting on a tree stump in a yard, with a chicken, wood piles and a wooden structure in the background.
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Chickens in a Yard

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Description: Chickens in a yard in front of wooden building on the left, and on the right a sideways double-exposure view of trees. The shadow of the photographer is on...
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Family and Their Chickens

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a man, woman, and a child standing behind a snowbank. On the right is a group of chickens near a wooden building. Farm buildings ...
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Group of People Posing in Front of House

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Description: Group portrait of a man, four women, an infant, three young girls, and a boy in a yard with chickens and cats. In the background on the right is a photogra...
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Man with Carpentery Tools

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man posing standing and holding wood-working tools on a shaded patch of ground in a field. Displayed around him is a trunk with more ...
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Nakoma 12th Night

Date: 01 07 1950
Description: Two co-chairmen hold a chicken to be given as a special prize at the Nakoma 12th Night Party. Donald Dohr, 4150 Cherokee Drive, stands at left, and Sidney...
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Children at Miller Hatchery

Date: 03 25 1949
Description: Pictured are four children admiring young chicks in the window of the Miller Hatchery, 2620 East Washington Street. Left to right: Marita Laufenberg, 9, 25...
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Hop House

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of a hop house built in about 1868 by H.J. Meyer.
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Young Girl Feeding Chickens

Date: 1898
Description: A young girl feeds a flock of chickens outside the Leslie Bird house. Several other residences are visible in the background.
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Street Scene

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Description: View down road of horses, wagons and buggies parked in front of buildings. Three men stand near a hotel on the right. A church building is in the backgroun...
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Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1940
Description: Gustave Ott (1871-1954) and Anna Ott (1871-1954) feeding a large flock of multi-colored chickens on their farm. Gustave is carrying a kettle and Anna is ho...
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State Street Looking North

Date: 1909
Description: View down tree-lined street with a bridge at the far end. There is a large house with a balcony and wrap-around porch on the other side of the road. A floc...
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Congregational Church

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Description: Three-quarter view of the front and side of the Congregational Church at the bottom of a steep, tree-lined hill. A wooden building with narrow arched windo...
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Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View of the central business district, with unidentified businesses, some with false fronts. Automobiles and a truck are parked along the sidewalk. A man a...
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Street Scene

Date: 1925
Description: View down street towards a garage with a gas pump on the left. There is a man standing by a parked car. Two women and a boy are standing near a parked car ...
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Scene at Fred Coleman Farm — Tornado

Date: 09 21 1931
Description: View from road of storm damage to a farm. The barn roof has blown off. Men are working on the roof, which has exposed roof timbers. In the foreground are t...

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