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Farm Laborers with Reaper

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Description: A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the...
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Farmer Harvesting Grain with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: European(?) farmer harvesting grain with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder as a young girl with water jug looks on. Two farm hands are in the background...
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Boy Operating Farmall Tractor

Date: 06 10 1924
Description: Engineering photograph of young boy cultivating a field with an experimental or early production Farmall tractor with attached cultivator.
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Young Girl on F-12 Tractor

Date: 07 06 1937
Description: Beverly Lundsten and hired man Gerald Stanford pose with a Farmall F-12 tractor on the Lundsten farm. The tractor is equipped with rubber tires and a singl...
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Survivors of Attack on Village

Date: 06 1962
Description: Women, children and elderly survivors of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi standing in a field. In the background a group of men are hauling s...
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Helicopter Aid after Viet Cong Attack

Date: 06 1962
Description: Survivors of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi, Vietnam sit or stand near an American military helicopter that has arrived to offer aid. A sol...
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Boy Strikes Against Libby, McNeill & Libby, Inc.

Date: 1967
Description: A nine-year old Jamaican boy wearing a backwards cap, plaid jacket, jeans, and sneakers. He is holding two buckets and is looking at the camera. He is join...
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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.
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Scene at Munson Farm after Cyclone

Date: 06 12 1915
Description: Group of men and boys standing around the exposed foundation of a house in the foreground. There is part of an overturned roof on the left. Broken wood is ...
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Bridge

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Description: View down railroad tracks of a railroad bridge, which has framed beams on the sides and top. A boy and girl are standing and posing on the bridge. Signs ar...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 154-160

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Description: Patience we learned and requiem
to rest the tense who die
For we forgot the brazen earth
in courtship of the sky
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 281-288

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Description: De Pere, Wis.

The sound has never left the harp
The song will never leave the well
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A Woman, A Girl and Some Chickens

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Description: Outdoor view of a woman and a girl posing standing in a yard. There are chickens and a wooden structure in the distance.
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Boys on Horseback

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Description: Outdoor view of two boys posing sitting on horseback in front of a fence. There is a wooden building in the background. A cat is in the foreground.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of People in front of Unidentified Residence and Stable

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Description: View across unpaved road and fence towards a group of people posing in front of a two-story wooden dwelling on the left, and a stable. on the right. A man ...
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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...
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Muriel and Laurie Peterson in Corn Field

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Description: Muriel and Laurie Peterson posing in front of a corn field as they look at each other. They are each holding corn cobs and leaves.
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Girl Posing in Cornfield

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Description: A girl posing in a cornfield, holding on to a tall corn stalk. She is wearing a plaid dress with a belt, socks, and shoes, and has a bow in her hair.
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Wow!

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Description: A group of women and girls wearing dresses are standing and gazing at Flo Knuth, who is wearing trousers. Flo is standing and bending over in the foregroun...
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Paul Arms with a Goat

Date: 1965
Description: Lewis Arms is holding his toddler son Paul on the back of a billy goat in a grassy field.

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