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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...
Photograph

N. Lunde Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View framed by trees of a barnyard at the N. Lunde farm. Cattle and three men are standing in an enclosed yard in front of a barn with a cupola. One of the...
Photograph

Family with Farm Animals near Barn

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Description: Family and animals, including horses and cattle with some apparent shorthorn markings, near the barn. Behind the group of two women and four children is a ...
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John P. Linde Family in Farmyard

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Description: Family in yard at side of farmhouse, boy with carriage at house front, children on front porch roof. There is a barn in the background on the left, a straw...
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Livestock Exposition Shampoo

Date: 1959
Description: Competitors in the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition washing their animals outdoors before the judging.
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Livestock Exposition Judging

Date: 1959
Description: Slightly elevated view of one competitor parading her animal for the judges at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition, while Alice in Dairylan...
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Field with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder near Farm Buildings

Date: 1900
Description: View from distance of a man standing in a field with fences and farm buildings behind him. A horse-drawn corn binder is standing in the field, and cows, pi...
Painting

A Farm Auction

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Description: An auctioneer, a clerk, and a helper stand on a stage on a farm conducting an auction as potential bidders surround them. Farming equipment and other items...
Photograph

Alligator Attack

Date: 1903
Description: Humorous posed photograph of a woman in a wagon being attacked by an alligator. The alligator is stuffed and propped against the side of the wagon. The wom...
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Maria Ketola with Cows

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Description: Maria Ketola crouching near cows in an enclosure. The animals are drinking from buckets.
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Staiduhar Barn

Date: 2004
Description: Bill and Karen Staiduhar live at N7596 Plover Road. At the time of this picture, the family had lived here for one week. The names of the children are Chad...
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Neitzel Barn — Second Barn

Date: 2004
Description: Jim and Donna Neitzel live on this farm at W2129 Hwy TW (Section 7). This barn has been in the Neitzel name for 100 years and will be deemed a Century Farm...
Photograph

Wendling Barn

Date: 2004
Description: The Wendling barn was built in 1929 for $10,000. In 1991, cows were milked for the last time.
Photograph

Group with Jersey Cows

Date: 1918
Description: Two men and a woman standing on the lawn of a home while holding four Jersey cows.
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

Woman and Cows in Barnyard

Date: 1935
Description: Woman and eight cows in a barnyard, with barns and farm outbuildings in the background in Iron County.
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Woman in Barnyard Watering Cows

Date: 1935
Description: Woman wearing a dress standing in a barnyard next to a cow drinking out of a pail. Other cows and a barn are in the background.
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Girl Riding Calf

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Description: A crowd standing in a circle is watching a girl sitting on a calf. In the background is a storefront.
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Sheep and Cattle and Farmers

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Description: View from field towards group of people, men and women, posing with sheep and cattle in a pen next to a barn. There are haystacks in the background on the ...
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Flood at Dates Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line as water rushes down a lane in the pasture in ...

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