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Cows on Observatory Hill

Date: 1900
Description: Fenced-in, the cattle find a grassy pasture of Observatory Hill below Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Train Wreck

Date: 09 09 1881
Description: Wreck of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad line on the Teegarten farm near Menomonie. Dead cows are in the foreground.
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Carcajou Pasteur

Date: 1920
Description: View of a rocky pasture with some small, distant farm buildings, and a few farm animals grazing.
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Carcajou Farm and Grazing Cattle

Date: 1920
Description: View of grazing cattle, and pigs, in a field, with a farmhouse in the background.
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Cows, Girl, and Cat

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Description: A cow, standing in front of a girl and a cat, with farm equipment and another cow in the background.
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Finnish Farm

Date: 1908
Description: Family posed outdoors at a farm in Northern Minnesota or Michigan.
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Englehardt Farm

Date: 1905
Description: The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ...
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Road near University Farms

Date: 1922
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison road near University Farms. There are cows in a field on the right.
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Poor Farm and Grounds

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of Poor Farm on the grounds of the Winnebago County Asylum. There is a large barn, silo, windmill, and the roof of a large building in the ba...
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Elevated View of Farmland

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Description: Elevated view of grid-plotted farm fields with a few cows grazing. The ocean is visible in the background.
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Farm Scene

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Description: A commercial farm scene with a water pump in the foreground, and a farm building and cattle behind a fence in the background.
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Men in Field with Cattle

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Description: Two men stand with a small herd of cattle on a path between fenced-in and planted fields on the side of a hill. Two buildings are in the background.
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Floyd Quinney

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Description: Floyd Quinney, Richard Quinney's father, feeding cows and chickens in a field on his family's farm.
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Ralph Quinney Waters the Family Cows

Date: 1938
Description: Young Ralph Quinney fills a water trough for a group of Jersey cows on the family farm.
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Farmyard with Windmill

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Description: View up hill of a Woodmanse Mfg Co. windmill. Three men seated are posing near the top of the windmill, which stands in a field where cows are grazing. In ...
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Cattle Grazing under the Pine Trees at Bessie Tift College

Date: 1925
Description: Cattle grazing amidst the trees.
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Feeding Cattle

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Description: Elevated view of cattle eating from large, square troughs. There are multiple pens, along with a farmhouse and open land in the background. Caption reads: ...
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Cattle on the 101 Ranch

Date: 1908
Description: View across field toward a group of cattle, with a farmhand to the right. A cow is laying on the ground in front of the herd. Caption reads: "Cattle on 101...
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Three Men on the Lake Dock

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Description: A view of three men, one sitting and two standing, on a lake dock. In the background on the far shoreline are cattle grazing. Foothills are in the backgrou...
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Dipping Cattle at Sandy Coulee

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Description: Elevated view from hill of a herd of cattle. A ranch hand monitors the cattle in the fenced section, while one man watches from outside the pen. In the bac...

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