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Log Cabin with N.G. Willard Family

Date: 09 09 1895
Description: Log cabin of N.G. Willard on 80 acres of land. Two women, a young child, and an infant are posing outdoors in the yard. Laundry is hanging on lines on the ...
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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
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Farm Family

Date: 1898
Description: A man, his wife and their two children are posing in front of their farmstead. The man is holding a team of horses. Another horse pulling a buggy is in the...
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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...
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Men with Plow

Date: 1873
Description: Group portrait of men gathered in a farmyard, posed behind two plows. The plow in front has Argyle, Wisc. from Michalson Implement Company inscribed on the...
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Farm and Rural Homestead

Date: 1890
Description: Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression.
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Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming

Date: 1958
Description: Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
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Wehmhoff Effigy Mound

Date: 06 27 1927
Description: Aerial view of the effigy mound on Henry Wehmhoff's Riverview Farm. State Trunk Highway 83 runs through the effigy.
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Dale Farm

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Description: A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption...
Drawing

Pecatonica River

Date: 1834
Description: Peck-a-ton-oka (Pecatonica River) with Rodolf farm in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

Saving the World From Starvation Advertisement

Date: 1922
Description: Color advertising flyer entitled "Saving the World From Starvation." Features an illustration of a man in a suit and hat and a farmer looking at McCormick-...
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Sun Prairie

Date: 1890
Description: Color plat map of Sun Prairie.
Photograph

Alexander Lake's Nursery

Date: 1896
Description: A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons...
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Farmall M Tractor with Forage Harvester and Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Man driving an International Harvester Farmall M tractor which is pulling a forage harvester next to a truck.
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International "Red Baby" Truck Leaving Rural Farmstead

Date: 1923
Description: International "Red Baby" (model S) truck loaded with binder twine(?) and a stationary engine leaving a rural farmstead. In the background a woman holding a...
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Farmall F-20 Tractor and Combine on Rural Highway

Date: 07 03 1934
Description: Farmer driving a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-20 tractor and combine (harvester-thresher) on a rural highway. The tractor and combine were equipped with Fir...
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African American Farmer on Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: African American farmer pulling a trailer with a Farmall Cub tractor on McQueen Smith Farms. The trailer is loaded with large sacks, and a child is sitting...
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Farmall M Leveling Gravel at Hinsdale Farm

Date: 1949
Description: Worker leveling gravel with a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor and a no. 7 angle dozer at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm and testing facility.
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Threshing Grain

Date: 1950
Description: A stationary McCormick-Deering thresher in action at the E.J. Shuster Farm.

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