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Milkmaid with Cow

Date: 1911
Description: Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads."
Photograph

Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well

Date: 04 1923
Description: A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background.
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Woman Carrying Water to Farmhouse

Date: 04 1923
Description: Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter.
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Henry Bigalk and Emil Kuney (Keune)

Date: 1906
Description: Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga...
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Washing Windows

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground.
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Family in Yard of Farmhouse

Date: 1872
Description: A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in...
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Reynolds' Farm Yard

Date: 
Description: Marjorie Quinney and Henry and Howard Reynolds stand in front of the Reynold's family farmhouse with two horses and a dog.
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Cellar Entrance

Date: 1923
Description: A woman wearing an apron and holding a bowl is posing on the stairs of a cellar bulkhead on the side of a farmhouse. A bell on a wooden pole is next to the...
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Engine-Powered Saw

Date: 10 1923
Description: A man wearing overalls and a cap is using a saw powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to cut wood on International Harvester's Hinsdale expe...
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Woman at Farmhouse Well

Date: 07 1923
Description: A woman wearing a dress and wide-brimmed hat is emptying water from one pail into another beside a hand-cranked well. The photograph was taken on the John ...
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Fly Trap

Date: 1924
Description: A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden.
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Bird's-Eye View of Town

Date: 1930
Description: View from hill of a farm near a pond. There are homes along the far shoreline, and a lake and hills in the far background.
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Two Boys with a Pail of Water

Date: 1913
Description: Two boys holding a pail of water. There is a wagon parked near a building in the background. Original caption reads: "Bringing a pail of warm water for the...
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Pumpkin Harvest

Date: 10 1983
Description: "Milton and Adeline Retzlaff show off their bountiful pumpkin harvest."
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Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...
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Chickens on the Farm

Date: 
Description: A very happy grandmother stands in the farmyard with a granddaughter, a cow and many chickens. In the background is the farmhouse.

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