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Michael Baltus Family in Front of New Home

Date: 1895
Description: Michael Baltus family posing in front of their log cabin two miles east of Auburndale Station, Wood County, with a new frame house under construction nearb...
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Prize-Winning Cabbage

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca...
Print

McCormick's Reaper and Mower Flyer

Date: 1859
Description: Flyer and order form advertising McCormick's Reaper and Mower. Features the headline "15,000 sold in the last 4 years" under an illustration of the reaper...
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Children Playing on Basement Foundation Ruins

Date: 04 23 1926
Description: Two children playing on the stone foundation of a basement which appears to have been damaged by fire. A farmhouse with two automobiles parked nearby are i...
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Crowd at Farm Sale

Date: 01 1924
Description: Large crowd gathered at a sale on the farm of Bert Dunbar. Harrows and other farm implements are on the snow-covered ground. Several automobiles are in the...
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Farmers with Corn

Date: 1913
Description: Three farmers standing near a wagon loaded with bags of corn as they deliver their product for testing. Two of the men are wearing winter coats with fur-tr...
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Man Taking Medicine

Date: 07 1926
Description: A man holding a cork between his teeth is pouring a dose of medicine into a spoon from an unmarked bottle. The photograph was staged at International Harve...
Postcard

Buff Creek Farm

Date: 06 19 1915
Description: Photographic postcard view of Buff Creek Farm. The farmhouse is on the left and the barn and outbuildings are on the right. A man and an automobile are nea...
Photograph

Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: Farm equipment, including a grain binder and mower, are lying in the snow outside a farmhouse. In the background on the right two children are standing nea...
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Livestock Auction

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Description: Elevated view of a livestock auction. Men and young boys stand around a cattle pen viewing a cow at a livestock auction. The men are dressed in hats and co...
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A Mule Pulling A Toboggan

Date: 1963
Description: Winter scene down a hill of a young boy or girl riding a mule which is pulling a toboggan up the snow-covered hill. Children in winter clothing run up the ...
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Spiegel Family Butchering Chickens

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Description: Six men of the Spiegel family stand outdoors around a long wooden table butchering chickens. The table is covered with large steel pots and pieces of meat....
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Man with International Auto Wagon

Date: 1947
Description: A man loads a burlap bag into an International Auto Wagon parked beside a farmhouse. Other farm buildings are in the background.
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Horse-Drawn Carriage and Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men are posing around a horse-drawn grain binder while two women are looking on from a horse-drawn carriage. One of the men is holding a bicycle, and a far...
Photograph

Sunny Brae Farm

Date: 1968
Description: "Brenda Widmer walks her dog Bonnie next to the disposal system. In distance is Sunny Brae farm, site of present-day Schnitzler River View Hills mobile hom...
Photograph

Husking Corn

Date: 10 1899
Description: A view of men and women husking corn in the field behind a farmhouse. Sitting from left to right are: August Prahl, August Krueger, Sarah Krueger, William...
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Farm Fields

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Description: View over fences, fields and road towards several wooden buildings. A man is standing overlooking the fields with his back towards the camera.
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Family Posing in front of Farmhouse

Date: 1900
Description: This family decided to make a family portrait with a number of the members doing an activity. On the right a man is wielding an ax, while in front of him a...
Photograph

People in Yard Outside a Frame House

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Description: Man posing sitting on farm equipment, probably a grain-binder, pulled by a team of four horses in the driveway of a large two-story frame house. A man is s...
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Fire on Schwertz Farm

Date: 04 30 1997
Description: "At the fire on the opposite page [Page 26], this 3/4 full, 500 gallon propane tank exploded and was propelled 1/2 mile to this location on the Jim & Donna...

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