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A gentleman paints a detailed design on a piece of pottery at an unidentified location in Shawneetown.

Photo caption: "Power corn sheller at a farm crib. (belongs with farm corn series)"

The freight yard, located in the northwest Chicago suburbs, was one of the largest switch yards in the world in the early and mid-twentieth century.Photo caption: "Proviso freight yards, largest switch yards in the world."

Rows of planted trees help with reforestation efforts at an unidentified location.Photo caption: "Reforestation"

Three African American men look at two paddle boats, including the Helen F., docked on the Ohio River. Four men stand with their backs to the camera on the Yackles Fish Market next to the dock. Several smaller watercraft and two automobiles fill the…

Photo caption: "Characteristic roadside view over gently sloping ground, woods, pastures, cultivated fields."

An individual and their dog stand at a roadside stand amidst a large collection of produce including pumpkins.Photo caption: "A highway roadside stand in autumn."

A Greek vendor with a makeshift cart sells roasted corn on a city sidewalk as a seated gentleman looks on.Photo caption: "Greek series - roasting green corn over a grate - sidewalk stand."

Photo caption: "Handpicked seed corn drying for storage for next season."

Photo caption: "Elevating seed corn into storage bin."

Photo caption: "Close-up of self-feeder and revolving knives, bundels of oats carried in on canvas roller."

Sheep graze in a hay field.Photo caption: "Pastoral scene, sheep, hay field."

A rearview of slum housing in Chicago. The back fence features campaign signs for Peter Bagnuolo, a candidate for alderman from the 20th district.

A woman stands on at the top of a staircase leading from the second floor of a house to a yard while a full clothesline stretches from her house to an unseen building on the left side.

An African American woman and three boys stand in a yard outside a slum building with a full clothesline hanging overhead.

A woman, partially obscured, stands in a room of a slum building filled with cooking implements, an icebox, and a bed.

Snow blankets a street and the surrounding houses and trees.

The St. Charles Air Line Bridge undergoes construction to relocate and shorten the structure as a result of the straightening of the Chicago River. The bridge is an example of bascule, or drawbridge, bridge design.

The St. Charles Air Line Bridge, a bascule, or drawbridge, provides a means for trains to cross the Chicago river. Industrial buildings are visible in the background.

An archway with open iron gates and a statue of Jesus at the top lead into the a courtyard in front of the large monastary with several turrets topped with crosses.

Two men stack alfalfa crops onto a horse drawn mechanical hay loader at the Murray Farm in Wellington, Ohio.

Photo caption: "Car window view of approach to a village on a state highway."

Photo caption: "Threshing oats with a traditional old-style steam outfit, a method being replaced by tractor power."

Photo caption: "View from tender of steam threshing machine."

Photo caption: "View from rear of steam threshing machine showing self-feeder and 'separator man'."