[GH85Carrera]

A farm family seem to be busy doing some watermelon pickling with the chickens perhaps scooping up the discarded seeds - Springfield, Illinois, c.1910.


Flattening hills to build Seattle (1909). Starting in 1897 and continuing through 1930, the hilly topography of central Seattle was radically altered by a series of regrades, in what might have been the largest such alteration of urban terrain at the time.