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Photograph

Children Exiting School Bus

Date: 04 06 1938
Description: Children getting off an International D-30 school bus in front of a rural farmhouse. The bus served Washington township in Grant County, Indiana. The bus f...
Photograph

Boy Standing by International School Bus

Date: 03 28 1938
Description: Boy with a book and lunch pail waiting as an International D-30-B or D-35-B school bus pulls up in front of his rural farmhouse. Another mischievous lad is...
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Photograph

Culling Demonstration

Date: 1919
Description: A group of men and women gather around Professor Garrick in the yard and on the porch of a farmhouse to watch a poultry culling demonstration. Additional f...
Photograph

Houses on a Rural Road

Date: 05 30 1916
Description: View down center of rural dirt road with houses along both sides in Black Hawk County. A man and horse are in a field on the left, near a sign that says: "...
Postcard

Greetings From Bruce

Date: 05 15 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of a poster promoting Bruce with seven photographs. The fairgrounds, Main Street, farm scene, Catholic Church, Chippewa River bridge,...
Map or Atlas

Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Date: 1897
Description: This 1897 map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, farm houses, camps, school houses, dams, bridges, Indian r...
Map or Atlas

Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Date: 1902
Description: This 1902 map of the eastern portion of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, farm houses, camps, school houses, ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Columbia County, Wisconsin

Date: 1877
Description: Shows land ownership by name, churches, schools, farm houses, wagon roads, railroads. Includes directory of businesses for Columbus, Portage, Doylestown, W...
Map or Atlas

Map of Shawano County, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: Shows lands belonging to Wisconsin Timber and Land Co., towns, post offices, saw mills, creameries, camps, churches, schools, farm houses, town halls, rail...
Map or Atlas

Map of the County of La Crosse Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: Map of La Crosse County, Wisconsin showing village plat, farm houses, schools, roads, railroads, township names (New Amsterdam, Dacota, Minnesota, Driesbac...
Photograph

Esther Peterson

Date: 1932
Description: Esther Peterson, a student at Mud Branch School, District No. 2, poses leaning against a tree on a hill while holding a baseball bat. There is a road and f...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

Date: 
Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Map or Atlas

Dane County Wisconsin Rural Social Survey

Date: 1927
Description: This Blue line print map shows trade area boundaries, lakes, farm homes, railways, high schools, public highways, and townships. A symbol key is included i...
Map or Atlas

Map of Columbia County, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows landownership, churches, schools, farm houses, wagon roads, railroads, and townships and includes businesses advertisements, tables of stati...
Map or Atlas

Rich Farming Land, Rusk Township, Southwestern Rusk County, Wis.

Date: 1912
Description: This map shows land for sale by the Rusk Farm Company. Caption reads, "Look carefully at the map. Notice the thickly settled country on all sides of our la...

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