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Poster

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Color illustrations advertising poster for McCormick harvesting machinery showing two steers looking over a fence with images of a reaper, mower, binder an...
Print

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
Print

Hillside Calendar April

Date: 1895
Description: Page showing the month of April from the Hillside Home School calendar. Included are two small cyanotype photographs, one of a house and the other of a fie...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Painting

Farm Painting

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Description: Farm painting of the Pierson Young residence.
Photograph

Bird's Eye View of Town

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Description: Elevated view of the town with hills in the distance. In the foreground are cattle inside a fence near a cemetery with a windmill. The town is behind furth...
Photograph

Scene near Bloom City

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Description: Elevated view of farmland. In the bottom-left center, there is a structure with a bell tower near a dirt road. In the center there is a similar building. T...
Postcard

The Return From the Alps

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Description: Color postcard of a Swiss farmer returning home with his animals. Many of the animals, and five of the shepherds, are labeled with a name. The path loops b...
Photograph

Farm Scene

Date: 1964
Description: "Farm Scene."
Photograph

Operating the Generator

Date: 03 1975
Description: "As a result of the storm some farms did not have electricity for five days. A generator was shared by many farmers and was moved from farm to farm so that...
Photograph

Carl Benter Rental Units

Date: 1997
Description: "Looking southeast of the water tower are Carl Benter rental units."
Photograph

Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
Photograph

Lorena Feldmann

Date: 1931
Description: Lorena Feldmann, 13, hoes in the garden at her family's farm. She is somewhat overdressed for the task in a light coat, white stockings and dress shoes. A ...
Photograph

Haystack and Cows

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Description: View across field towards a group of cows around a large haystack. There is snow on the ground. In the distance are more fields, a building, and a small hi...
Photograph

Cattle in a Field

Date: 01 10 1923
Description: Elevated view of cattle in a hilly field with trees.
Photograph

Syverud Farm

Date: 1967
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of a farm. A man is sitting on the hill in the foreground with his arm on one knee, gazing at the view. There is a house, p...

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