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Hop House

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of a hop house built in about 1868 by H.J. Meyer.
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Photograph

Sousaphone Player in Barnyard

Date: 
Description: Member of a local farmers' band practicing in a barnyard with a cow and pony. Another animal, unidentified, stands behind the sousaphone player.
Photograph

A Shepherd with His Flock

Date: 1925
Description: A shepherd with a crook watches his flock in a wooded area beside a pond. His sheep dog rests beside him.
Photograph

Flock of Sheep

Date: 1925
Description: A flock of sheep graze under old willow trees alongside a stream.
Photograph

Dairy Days Parade

Date: 1950
Description: Bernard Arms holding a firearm poses on a parade float decorated in an autumn theme, including a stuffed bear, fox, and squirrel. The parade was a part of ...
Photograph

View from Bluff Near Crystal Lake

Date: 1925
Description: View from bluff of Crystal Lake and surrounding rolling hills. There is a dairy farm in the foreground at the bottom of the bluff. Cows are grazing in fiel...
Photograph

Man and Grandsons Standing in a Field

Date: 1880
Description: Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t...
Photograph

Farm Scene Through the Mist

Date: 1965
Description: Cedar tree and farmland in mist.
Photograph

Beekeeping Class

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of men and women posing outdoors in full beekeeping gear. Part of a class on beekeeping in Wisconsin.
Photograph

Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1940
Description: Gustave Ott (1871-1954) and Anna Ott (1871-1954) feeding a large flock of multi-colored chickens on their farm. Gustave is carrying a kettle and Anna is ho...
Postcard

Gene Murray's Ox Team

Date: 1957
Description: Text on front reads: "Amos and Andy, Gene Murray's Ox Team, Reedsburg, Wis." Mr. Murray posing with his oxen team and covered wagon. Text on the wagon cove...
Postcard

Lovers Lane

Date: 08 14 1929
Description: Text on front reads: "Lovers Lane, Sauk City, Wis." An unpaved, rural road with a wooden guard rail on both sides. A sign reads: "Automobiles Go Slow." Beh...
Postcard

Greetings from Spring Green

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green, Wis." On the reverse it reads: "Here's Some Sugar, Little Fella!" Two girls are feeding a treat to a foa...
Postcard

Greetings from Spring Green

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green." On the reverse it reads: "Palomino Mare and Colts." Three horses and a foal graze in a pasture. Three a...
Postcard

Greetings from Spring Green

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green." On the reverse it reads: "Grazing in Contentment." A herd of mostly Holstein cows in a pasture on the s...
Postcard

A Scene Near Spring Green

Date: 07 20 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "A Scene Near Spring Green, Wis." Two men are standing in the open doorwway, and one man is standing with a white horse in the yard of...

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