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80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: A chorus of men singing on stage with a crowd watching. A group of officials seated on the right. Rolling farmland in the background.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 522-531

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Description: It's a day for celebration, just to be so cheering glad and everyone to know
Photograph

Boy Holding Bees Near Hive

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Description: A young boy is crouching and holding a small swarm of bees over what appears to be a nucleus box. Behind him are hive boxes and frames.
Photograph

Jennie and Edgar Posing with Dead Rabbit and Two Dead Birds

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger suspending a tree limb on their shoulders on which is hanging a dead rabbit and two birds. Each of them is holding a rifle over th...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of the Alexander Krueger Family

Date: 1904
Description: Outdoor Portrait of the Alexander Kruger family posing on and behind a large fallen tree. Florentina and Alexander Kruger are standing behind the tree, whi...
Photograph

Krueger Family in a Wheat Field

Date: 1908
Description: Florentina, Jennie, Edgar, and Alexander Krueger standing in the middle of a wheat field on their farm.
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Turvill Family Picking Strawberries

Date: 1897
Description: The Turvill family picking strawberries on their family farm. Five family members, men and women, are crouched in the field picking, and a young girl stand...
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Sunday Ride

Date: 1908
Description: Members of the Krueger family, including Edgar, Florentina, Jennie, and Sarah, sitting together in a lumber wagon on a Sunday ride. A two-horse team is pul...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog with Calendar — February & March

Date: 1895
Description: Catalog featuring calendar pages. February features Lewis Miller, the father of the mowing machine, with text and a portrait. March has an illustration of ...
Photograph

Large Group in Field with Horse-Drawn Binders

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a large group of people posing in a field. There are five men on five McCormick binders. A child is standing in front of one of t...
Photograph

Men and Children with Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men and two children are posing with a horse-drawn binder in a field. The horses are wearing fly-nets.
Photograph

Boy with Photo Albums

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Description: View towards a boy standing outdoors in the grass leaning against a table with photo albums stacked on it. A fence is in the background, and a buggy is par...
Photograph

Newton Baker's Children and Two Men

Date: 09 21 1919
Description: Two children, identified as the son and daughter of United States Secretary of War Newton Baker, standing in a field and pointing to the left. With them ar...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Men in Field During Demo of New Machine

Date: 08 07 1926
Description: View across field towards a large group of men, and one boy, standing near a tractor, and new demo machinery.
Photograph

Men Posing in Field with Harvester-Thresher

Date: 07 19 1927
Description: View of a group of men and children posing, on and around a tractor pulling a harvester thresher. Many of the men are wearing white shirts and neckties,
Photograph

Group of Men and Children with Harvester Thresher

Date: 08 13 1927
Description: Group portrait of men standing in front of a McCormick-Deering harvester thresher in a field. Two children are standing on the harvester thresher above the...
Photograph

Two Boys with Calf

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Description: Two boys are holding onto ropes and following behind a calf who has the ropes attached to a collar on its neck. Farm buildings are in the background. Hand-...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Children and Adults

Date: 10 16 1904
Description: Seven children are sitting on the ground in front of a row of seven adults who are sitting, with six adults standing in the rear. A woman in the back row, ...

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