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Victory Garden Window Display

Date: 1917
Description: Display in the window of John J. Blied & Sons promoting victory gardens and featuring seed packets, hoes, and watering cans.
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McCormick Grain Binders at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 1900
Description: Two men use horse-drawn McCormick grain binders in a field in front of a dairy barn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A grain elevator or walkway ext...
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McCormick Binders at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 1900
Description: Two men use horse-drawn McCormick grain binders in a field in front of a dairy barn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A grain elevator or walkway ext...
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Longfellow School Greenhouse

Date: 04 21 1953
Description: Five kindergarteners at Longfellow school preparing plants for the school's greenhouse.
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Turvill House and Garden

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Turvill house and garden. A man and woman are working in the garden near the Turvill home. The woman, wearing a bonnet, is bent over w...
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We Are Power Farmers

Date: 1924
Description: A middle-aged man stands holding an agricultural implement in a field of tobacco plants. A sign next to him reads: "We Are Power Farmers Using Fordson Trac...
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"We are Power Farmers"

Date: 1924
Description: Group portrait of a farmer and five children posing with a sign that reads: We Are Power Farmers Using Fordson Tractor Purchased from Schoelkopf, Authorize...
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Del Wood's Country Store

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Description: View from parking lot of "Del Wood's Country Store, Cheese, Liquor, Gift Shoppe." Three people are standing on the covered porch near the entrance. Agricul...
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Sid Boyum on his Toonerville Trolley

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Description: View across the backyard of 237 Waubesa St. looking at Sid Boyum standing on the back of his wooden trolley, "Toonerville". Sid has a corncob pipe in his m...
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Painted Plow

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Description: Hand-painted plow, with design of flowers in Sid's backyard, next to the Tea House and the base of a sculpture.
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Painted Plow in Sid's Backyard

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Description: A plow with handles, plowshare and hitch is painted with multicolored design of spirals, dots and chevrons. A red concrete lantern is on the left, and leaf...
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Horse-drawn Disc Harrow

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Description: Horse-drawn harrow on display by the railroad yard platform at the first machine works plant of Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East ...
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"Hammer the Hun" Parade

Date: 1917
Description: A children's parade is marching down a street. In front are several boys dressed in overalls and carrying pitchforks and other farm implements. Behind them...
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Kenneth Hopkins and Sulky Plow Model

Date: 03 1951
Description: Caption reads: "Kenneth Hopkins, curator of exhibits, examining a model of the sulky plow manufactured in Madison by the old Fuller and Johnson Co., foreru...

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