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Automobile Accident on County Trunk M

Date: 04 15 1934
Description: Onlookers surveying damage from a fatal two-car collision. The view is looking south on County Trunk Highway M, between Speedway Road and Middleton. In the...
Photograph

Waukesha's Primitive Airfield

Date: 1924
Description: A barnstorming pilot and curious onlookers at a field on the outskirts of Waukesha that served as a primitive airport. Technically, the term barnstorming s...
Photograph

Automobile Accident Scene

Date: 04 15 1934
Description: Auto accident involving Leo Maly and August Sternhagen vehicles, looking north, County Trunk M, between Speedway Road and Middleton Jct. Road. Leo Maly was...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Tillage Implements Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of tillage implements featuring an illustration of a farm seen from a high...
Photograph

Farmer with Walking Planter

Date: 1925
Description: Farmer in a field walking behind a P&O planter drawn by a mule. There is an automobile on a road near a house behind a fence in the background.
Photograph

Washington Island

Date: 1925
Description: Washington Island, including field and fence, with buildings, automobiles, and a large ship in the distance.
Photograph

Men in Car on Dirt Road

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Description: Four men in a car with the number four on the front is driving up a dirt road surrounded by fields. Hay bales are in the field on the right.
Photograph

Trailing Plow with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: View across field towards a man using a Farmall H tractor with a 2-furrow trailing plow to work in a field. A farmhouse and several outbuildings are in th...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Painting

Sweet Clover School

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Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
Photograph

Automobile Accident

Date: 05 28 1952
Description: View of the Sauk-Middleton Road where an automobile accident occurred. Taken for Attorney Farrond Shuttleworth.
Photograph

Bernard Arms on a Farm

Date: 05 19 1929
Description: Bernard Arms stands atop a post on a farm.
Photograph

Tim Enderle with Elk

Date: 2004
Description: About 40 elk are currently being raised on the Enderle farm by Tim Enderle.
Photograph

Rundown Farm Buildings

Date: 10 1930
Description: View across a road and field of several rundown farm buildings located near a farmhouse. The image was used to illustre: "poor farm buildings."
Photograph

Filling Station at Old Newport Resort on Lower Dells

Date: 1929
Description: Filling station with attendant standing outside near two pumps. There is a stand with signs advertising Old Gold cigarettes, 5 cent vegetable sandwiches, P...
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

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 ...
Photograph

County Trunk F

Date: 1925
Description: View down steep road with guard rail. A car is parked on the side of the road on the right. Over the railing, there is a river and a town with a church bui...
Photograph

Looking South from Stand Pipe

Date: 1916
Description: Elevated view from the water tower. There is a laundry line in the backyard of the white house in the foreground. A car is driving down the road. In the di...
Photograph

Man Operating Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 04 18 1927
Description: A man wearing a hat sitting on a two-horse manure spreader with farm buildings, an automobile, and a cow in the background. The original caption reads: "Ke...

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