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Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Photograph

J.H. Gilchrist with Granddaughter in Cotton Field

Date: 1915
Description: J.H. Gilchrist, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and long coat, is standing in a cotton field on his farm to show his granddaughter, Lelia Sykes, th...
Photograph

Blackhawk Bowhunters Club

Date: 07 19 1953
Description: Lois Herning, age 10, surveys her results on an archery target at Blackhawk Bowhunters Club.
Photograph

Kay and Brenda Widmer

Date: 
Description: "Kay & Brenda Widmer pause on a high hill on McArthur Road southwest of Theresa."
Photograph

Child Operating Horse-Drawn Farm Machinery

Date: 1915
Description: A young child is sitting on what appears to be a horse-drawn mower in a field. The horses are wearing fly-nets and blinders.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Family with Horse-Drawn Plow

Date: 
Description: A woman and child are posing sitting on a plow steered by a man standing on their right. The two horses are standing on the left. In the background is a tr...
Photograph

Camp Indianola

Date: 1929
Description: A group of young boys with their male camp counselors are sitting and standing around the split-rail fence. There is a log cabin and a cornfield in the bac...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

Date: 
Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of unidentified family. Two women are posing sitting in front of a man posing standing, with three girls posing standing. Location i...
Book or Pamphlet

John S. Davis & Sons Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover with text: "Oscillator = Thresher". Also includes color illustration of a young girl sitting on a tree swing. Behind her, men women and child...
Photograph

Two Girls Standing on Bridge

Date: 1913
Description: View from riverbank looking down towards two girls standing in the middle of a bridge along a road. They are looking over the railing at the water below. F...
Photograph

Playing on Rocks

Date: 1901
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger playing with Effy Goetsch Carr on a pile of rocks. All three children have toys in their hands.
Photograph

In a Field of Sorghum

Date: 1902
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger are sitting on a stacked pile of harvested sorghum stalks. Edgar is holding a piece of the top of the plant in his hands. August, ...
Photograph

Feeding Cows

Date: 07 24 1904
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger feeding hay to several young cows through a fence. In the background are fields and trees.
Photograph

Resting by the Willow Tree

Date: 06 1906
Description: Sarah, Florentina, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger resting near a leaning willow tree in a pasture. The children are sitting in the tree, Sarah is sitting on the...
Photograph

Fishing in a Small Pond

Date: 06 1906
Description: Alexander Krueger and family fishing in a small pond on their farm. Alexander and Edgar are using sticks as fishing poles, while Florentina and Jennie are ...
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

Girl in a Buggy

Date: 
Description: Outdoor portrait of a small girl posing sitting in a horse-drawn buggy.
Photograph

Husking Corn in a Cleared Field

Date: 1903
Description: Johanna, Jennie, Edgar, and William Krueger husking corn in a cleared cornfield. Corn shocks are scattered around the field. Farm buildings are in the far ...

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