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Spring Planting

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Description: A farmer is planting corn using the planter wire method.
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Milking Time

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Description: A farm family takes part in milking time. The mother carries a milk can and a stripping bucket while the boy pushes milk cans on a cart toward the barn. Th...
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Threshing

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Description: A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
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Rural Free Delivery

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Description: A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi...
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...
Painting

Corn Shredding

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Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
Photograph

Cleaning Cow Barn

Date: 12 11 1983
Description: Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader.
Photograph

Chores

Date: 09 03 1965
Description: Dale Gross (1908-1980) in silhouette carrying two pails into a barn.
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Stacking Hay Bales

Date: 03 14 1985
Description: Young man wearing a knit cap and flannel shirt stacking bales of hay in a barn.
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Farms Along U.S. 16

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Description: Aerial view of a road, with several farms, fields and hills along it. Caption reads: "U.S. 16 near La Crosse, Wis."
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Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1952
Description: Aerial view of a farm in the summer.
Photograph

Winter Winds

Date: 1976
Description: Deserted farmstead with a cow standing in the snow at the base of a windmill. The wooden portions of the stone farmhouse are deteriorating, and many pieces...
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Hay Loader

Date: 1976
Description: View from inside a barn towards a farmer moving hay bales by hand out of the wide door. Snow is on the ground, and trees, buildings, a fence are in the bac...
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Snowmobile Tracery

Date: 1972
Description: Snowmobile tracks form a pattern in the snow on a farm. Farm buildings are on the left and trees are along a ridge on the right.
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Wisconsin Pioneer

Date: 1978
Description: An older woman is splitting wood on a farm. She is wearing a dress and apron.
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Farmstead Under Large Tree

Date: 08 1977
Description: A farmstead under a large tree, with fields and wooded hills in the background.
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Barnyard Parade

Date: 1977
Description: A woman is leaning on a gate and gazing at a flock of geese in a farmyard. In the background are farm buildings and farmhouse with trees.

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