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International Bus in the Philippines

Date: 1960
Description: Man and woman with baskets boarding a crowded International bus bound for Bolinao in the Pangasinan Province of the Philippines.
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Delivery of 4-H Accounting Award

Date: 05 20 1936
Description: 4-H County Agent Ray Aune delivers a McCormick-Deering cream separator to Miss Luella Pagel. Ms. Pagel was the winner of the state 4-H Accounting Award. Pi...
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Friendly Persuasion

Date: 08 06 1987
Description: Two women coax a stubborn calf at the State Fair.
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Feeding a Calf

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene with Bertha Gesell feeding a calf from a pan.
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Elmer the Bull

Date: 1951
Description: Elmer, "husband" of Elsie the Cow, advertising mascot of the Borden Company, is shown with a young woman as he was being readied for participation as one o...
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Alice in Dairyland and Elsie the Cow

Date: 1948
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, and Elsie the Cow and her calf Beauregard, stand on a parade float with two men in downtown Milwaukee, while a male o...
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Reluctant Cows at Fairgrounds

Date: 07 16 1971
Description: Bette Brown of Hartland pulls her somewhat reluctant cows across the midway at the Waukesha County Fairgrounds.
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Tourists Among Burial Mounds

Date: 1910
Description: A sightseeing party wanders among cows and Native American burial mounds near the popular picnic area at Merrill Springs, on the south shore of Lake Mendot...
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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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Finnish Farm

Date: 1908
Description: Family posed outdoors at a farm in Northern Minnesota or Michigan.
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Pela Rosen Alpert and Friends Pose in Field

Date: 1946
Description: Pela Rosen Alpert and friends stand in a field next to a cow. From left: Mrs. Schain, Pela Rosen Alpert, unidentified friend, Celinda Lippman; Sweden.
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Covered Wagon on Set of "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Covered Wagon in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Covered Wagon in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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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...
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Six Cowgirls on Their Horses

Date: 1908
Description: View across water toward six cowgirls on their horses, with their reflection in the water. Ranch outbuildings are in the background. Caption reads: "Cowgir...
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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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Group with Jersey Cows

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