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Kruegers Husking Corn

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Description: August, Mary, Tina, Saraphina, Jennie and Edgar Krueger husking corn.
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Farm Family and Farm

Date: 1889
Description: A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ...
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Adults at a Table Near House

Date: 1872
Description: Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev...
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Women and Children in Yard near House

Date: 1876
Description: Two women and three children standing in the yard of cube-shaped house with porch and hipped roof with strangely placed windows. The woman on the right en...
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Family Posing in Yard

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Description: A family of five posing with their dog in the yard in front of their house. On the left is an older man sitting in a chair with a child in his lap, and in ...
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Jacob Gasser Family

Date: 1898
Description: Group portrait of the Jacob Gasser family standing in front of the farmhouse at Tower Rock Farm.
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Englehardt Farm

Date: 1905
Description: The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ...
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Group in Front of Uncle Herman's House

Date: 08 02 1903
Description: Group posed on the lawn of Uncle Herman's house. Three women are seated on a platform swing while others are sitting on the lawn and the porch. Harry Danko...
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Family Seated in Field Outside Home

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of a family in field. A man holding a cigar leans against a tree trunk, and a woman and young girl are seated on a broken limb which lies over the...
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Family Standing in front of Climbing Plant

Date: 1920
Description: Family, including a man, two boys and a girl, standing in front of a farm house and a large climbing plant.
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Field of Potatoes on the Farm of Oswald Scheller

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card depicting Oswald Scheller and his family on their farm in northern Wisconsin.

The caption below the image reads: "Field of potatoes on...

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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...
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People in front of Farm

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Description: View across road towards a group of people posing in front of a farm. On the left a man and woman are each sitting on separate horses, and in the center an...
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Family in Front of Frame House and Farm Buildings

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Description: Man and woman posing sitting, and a woman, boy, and girl posing standing. In the background is a frame house and farm buildings.
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Brundage Family in Their Old Home

Date: 1935
Description: Portrait of the Brundage family in their old log cabin home. They are, left to right, standing: Robert (10), Walter, Thelma, Bruce (7), and seated: Victor ...
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Oscar Hendrickson Family

Date: 1932
Description: Oscar Hendrickson and his wife pose with their sons Kenneth and Myron in front of their house. Kenneth, a student at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2,...
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Huffstetter Home

Date: 1908
Description: Farmhouse home and family of William Huffstetter.
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Two Sisters Wed Two Brothers and Share House

Date: 08 04 1961
Description: Brothers Edward and Oscar Saalsaa wed sisters Helen and Doris Andrews in 1942. They all lived together and farmed together. Doris and Oscar Saalsaa (left)...
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Rephotographic Pair: Tower Rock Farm

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Description: A vintage view and a modern view of Tower Rock Farm, presented as a pair. The vintage view shows the Jacob Gasser family posing in front of the farmhouse. ...
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M.M. Rice Farm

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Description: View towards a farm at the base of a hillside, with smoke coming out of a chimney on a farmhouse, and two outbuildings. A group of eight people are posing ...

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