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Photograph

Family Farm House

Date: 1879
Description: Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o...
Photograph

Family and Farmstead

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Description: A family stands in a field with a farmstead behind them. The farmstead buildings include a hops drying shed with a large round chimney, small log structure...
Photograph

Men on Chimneys

Date: 1874
Description: A unusual scene on an unidentified farmstead probably located near Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. A family is posed in the yard of a frame house, as is usual...
Drawing

Ackerman Farm House

Date: 1946
Description: Front view of the Ackerman farmhouse, built about 1841, located at University Avenue and East Mill Street.
Photograph

Tornado Damage

Date: 07 23 1944
Description: Tornado damage in Truax Field area. The Anderson house chimney was damaged, and the trees surrounding it were uprooted.
Photograph

The Attic

Date: 2003
Description: The attic of the Quinney farmhouse. A photograph (crayon portrait) of the photographer's great-grandfather, Nathan Church Reynolds (1828 - 1895) is leaning...
Drawing

Farm House on State Highway 49

Date: 1946
Description: Pencil drawing of a farm house between Ripon and Waupun, on State Highway 49. Left gable has a bell on a post on top of it. Features two doorways in front,...
Photograph

Farmstead near Waterway

Date: 1900
Description: Rural scene of farmstead with a river or stream (?) in the background. The farm is bounded by a barbed wire fence, and there is a utility pole on the bank ...
Photograph

Abandoned Farmhouse

Date: 09 24 1960
Description: View of part of an abandoned, weathered farmhouse which is surrounded by overgrown weeds.
Photograph

Abandoned Farmhouse

Date: 10 27 1963
Description: Several trees surround an abandoned farmhouse on a hill.
Photograph

The Old Place

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Description: View of the Quinney family's farmhouse including screened porch and yard.
Photograph

Thomas and Florence Quinney's Farmhouse

Date: 1920
Description: Thomas (Tom) and Florence Quinney standing in front of their farmhouse which has a climbing vine growing on it.
Photograph

Farmhouse and Barn

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Description: View of a farmhouse, driveway and yard. A barn is in the background.
Photograph

Charles Taylor Family

Date: 1902
Description: Family portrait of Charles Taylor, his wife, Ellen Wishart, and their two children taken on the lawn in front of their house. Lorena Taylor, standing besi...
Photograph

Stream Bed and Country Road

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Description: View looking north from a covered bridge, including a rocky stream-bed and a tree-lined dirt road with houses and other wooden buildings. Caption reads, "V...
Painting

A Winter Day

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Description: On the right, the farmer in his sheepskin coat drives a horse-drawn sled loaded with milk cans to the cheese factory. A blanket is covering the cans to pre...
Photograph

Farmhouse's Planting and Fence

Date: 1924
Description: View from a rural road to a farmhouse demonstrating its landscaping and what the original caption describes as a "novel fence." The large barn in the backg...
Photograph

Nellie Arms and Her Cat

Date: 10 24 1954
Description: Nellie Arms, aunt of Lewis Arms, holds a cat outdoors at the farm she shared with her husband Bernard.
Postcard

Scene in Railroad Yards

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Description: Photographic postcard of the railroad yards. Elevated view of railroad tracks and switch-yard, with steam rising behind a brick building on the left. Railr...
Photograph

Farmhouse

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Description: A woman stands on the porch of her farmhouse. Published by W.I. Smith.

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