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McCormick Reaper Illustration

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Description: Illustration of a McCormick reaper of 1858 in the field near a farm house. A crowd of onlookers is gathered near the field.
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Portrait of Joe Bear Heart and Wife Posing Outdoors

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on the ground in a clearing with trees in the background. She is sitting cross-legged and is holding an ea...
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Joe Bear Heart near Table of Drying Corn

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk man wearing a hat posing standing behind a table loaded with kernels of corn on a cloth drying by a wooden building. The man is...
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of a Wisconsin cranberry bog and harvest. Men are harvesting in the flooded cranberry marshes.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh.
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Avery 130 Tractor

Date: 1915
Description: Men use an Avery 130 tractor with a gang plow to work in a farm field.
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Avery's "Infant"

Date: 1915
Description: A man sits behind the wheel of an Avery tractor pulling a piece of farm machinery. In the background is a long open building with a tower. The back of the ...
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East Main Street Looking S.E.

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Description: View across East Main Street towards a row of businesses, looking southeast. From the left, the corner building has a tobacco shop with a law office above,...
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Farm Fields

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Description: Elevated view of a farm, fields and hills near River Falls.
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Bluffs

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Description: View across field towards bluffs covered with trees. The edge of the bluff has an exposed rock face. The leaves on the trees are autumn colored.
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Field in Valley among Bluffs

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Description: View from a dirt road towards a field in a valley of low bluffs. Farm buildings are near a base of the bluffs at the far edge of the field.
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Landscape with Bluff and House

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Description: View across a field towards a tall bluff. On the right is a house and barn at the base of the rock formation.
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Landscape with Hills and Mound Near Lake

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Description: Elevated view from a hill of a lake or river surrounded by fields and hills. The water is either marshy, or has been flooded, as trees and plants are growi...
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Bridge Over a River

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Description: Elevated view from shoreline of a river with an iron bridge over it. Buildings are on the far shoreline near fields, and tree-covered hills are in the dist...
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Rural Road

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Description: View across unpaved rural road that curves around to the left around a large rock formation with an exposed rock face with trees growing on the top. There ...
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Landscape with Rock Formation

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Description: View across flat field towards a tall, narrow exposed rock formation on the left with a few trees growing on it, and on the far right another rock formatio...
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University Heights Looking Towards Madison

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Description: View from University Heights looking south across hills and open fields towards barns and fences. There is a series of long barns and a long fence on the r...
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Scale Model of Reaper

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Description: Scale model of a reaper.
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Man Pulling a Combined Disc and Harrow

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Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man pulling a "combined disk and harrow" through a field with a tractor.
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Man Walking Behind Horse-Drawn Harrow

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Description: View towards a man walking behind a harrow in a farm field. Farm buildings are in the distance. Hand-tinted lantern slide.

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