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Scout II Pickup in Resort Area

Date: 1972
Description: Color advertising photograph of a driver talking with a man in front of a resort building with a number of wagons and canoes in background. A 1972 Internat...
Photograph

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.
Painting

The Blacksmith Shop

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Description: A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses.
Painting

The Cheese Factory

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Description: Horse-drawn wagons, also known as milk buggies, dropping off cans of milk at the country cheese factory during summer.
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Haying Time

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Description: A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July.
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Threshing

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Description: A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev...
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Steam Power

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Description: A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank...
Painting

Yellowstone Church

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Description: A depiction of the Yellowstone Church of rural Lafayette County, just a few miles from the Kammerude farm. The church is built from locally quarried limest...
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Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
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Rural Free Delivery

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Description: A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi...
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The Country Store

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Description: View of a country store in autumn. A man driving a horse-drawn wagon hauls full milkcans in the foreground and, to the right, several families are hauling ...
Painting

Corn Shredding

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Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
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A Winter Day

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Description: On the right, the farmer in his sheepskin coat drives a horse-drawn sled loaded with milk cans to the cheese factory. A blanket is covering the cans to pre...
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Maple Sugaring

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Description: Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho...
Photograph

Kickert Horse-Drawn Bus

Date: 09 1975
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man smoking a pipe and driving a horse-drawn R. Kickert carriage.
Photograph

Kickert Horse-Drawn Bus

Date: 09 1975
Description: Left side view of Kickert horse-drawn carriage. One child is sitting in the carriage, and behind the carriage a group of children are walking on the sidewa...
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School Children Walking Towards Kickert Buses

Date: 09 1975
Description: View across road towards Kickert school buses at a school. Children are waiting in a line on the sidewalk. Some of the children are in a horse-drawn carria...
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School Children Walking Towards Kickert Buses

Date: 09 1975
Description: View through school building doorway towards children walking towards Kickert school buses and a horse-drawn carriage. A Bennington flag is visible on a te...
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Kickert Horse-Drawn Bus

Date: 09 1975
Description: Left side view of Kickert horse-drawn carriage. Signs painted on the side of the carriage read: "Service to McKinley School" and "R. Kickert." One child is...
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Children Near Kickert Horse-Drawn Carriage

Date: 09 1975
Description: Children standing in a parking lot in front of a horse-drawn carriage. The carriage has painted signs on the side that read: "R. Kickert" and "Service to M...

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