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Grading the Road

Date: 1931
Description: Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil...
Book or Pamphlet

Eclipse Wind Engine Co. Catalog

Date: 1880
Description: Page from Eclipse Wind Engine Co. [Beloit, Wisconsin] catalog featuring an illustration of an Eclipse Wind Engine installed in a barn. A cut-away view show...
Photograph

Digging up Ground

Date: 1955
Description: Slightly elevated view of machinery being used to dig up ground along a road near an open field. There is a farmhouse among trees in the background. Snow i...
Photograph

Machines Digging up the Ground

Date: 1955
Description: Slightly elevated view of a truck, crane and other digging equipment being used to dig up ground near a field. Several mounds of dirt are behind the machin...
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...
Photograph

Men Using Farmall Tractor to Power Saw

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Side view of two men using a Farmall tractor to power a saw that they are using to cut logs. Behind the woodpile is a bell on a small wooden tower. In the ...
Photograph

Lawson M.T.2 in Field

Date: 1917
Description: A Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) is parked in a field. Several houses are visible in the background.
Photograph

Alfred Lawson in Tractor Biplane

Date: 1917
Description: Alfred Lawson is seated in the rear compartment of a Lawson Tractor Biplane. The front compartment passenger is barely visible. A farm is in the distance.
Photograph

Corn Crib and Truck Near Storage Silo

Date: 08 13 1926
Description: View of a corn crib set on a platform above the ground. Just behind the corn crib is a round, metal storage building with a roof. On the right is a truck, ...
Photograph

Group at Ed Kearns

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of seven adults and nine children, including two infants, posing sitting and standing under a tree near the open door of a two-story wood fr...
Photograph

Farmhouse with Windmill Tower

Date: 1915
Description: View across fence toward a house, with a windmill in the side yard. Pumping machinery is under the windmill tower support. An outbuilding is in the backgro...

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