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Pastimes

Bluffs in Palisades-Kelper State Park

photo of Palisades cave Date @1910

Palisades cave Date @1910

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Pastimes

Unidentified River

photo of Unidentified River
Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, When is this?, Where is this?

Unidentified Children

photo of Unidentified Children-1910

Date @1910

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Children, Fashion, Glass Negative, Home Life, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, Who am I?

Walking Women

photo of Walking Women
Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, When is this?, Where is this?, Who am I?, Women

Main Street

photo of Main Street
Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Lincoln Highway, Main Street, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, The New Age

Main Street

photo of Main Street
Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Glass Negative, Lincoln Highway, Main Street, Men, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, The New Age, When is this?, Who am I?, Women

Bicycles

photo of Bicycles
Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Ask R Thomas, Fashion, Men, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, Who am I?, Women

Women on Porch

photo of Women on Porch
Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Glass Negative, Home Life, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, When is this?, Where is this?, Who am I?, Women

Tallest Corn

photo of Tallest Corn

Virgil won the contest with this entry — crofter farm is in the Ivanhoe area … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Crofter Collection, Fashion, Glass Negative, Men, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, Who am I?

Mr. Crofter

photo of Mr. Crofter

1942. John Walton Virgil Crofter, and Harold Schaubreck on Walton farm north of Mount Vernon.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Glass Negative, Men, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, The New Age

Unidentified Women

photo of Unidentified Women-1910

2 unidentified (students?) women (rooming house?) Sisters? (women’s bedroom) Date @1910

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Glass Negative, Home Life, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, Where is this?, Who am I?, Women

Unidentified Women

photo of Unidentified Women-1915

2 unidentified women (students?) Date @1915

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Fashion, Glass Negative, Lincoln Highway, Main Street, Mount Vernon, Pastimes, Who am I?, Women
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