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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions on the farm. Includes a large bird's-eye view of a farm, surrounded by ...
Photograph

Livestock Grazing

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Description: View down hill towards sheep, horses and dairy cattle grazing in a pasture in the foreground. Men and women are posing among the farm animals in the field....
Photograph

G. Gullockson Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi...
Photograph

Pasture and Cows Below Taliesin I

Date: 1912
Description: Pasture and trees below the southeast side of Taliesin I. Two cows are in the pasture.
Photograph

Rock River

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: "Cows graze along the Rock River southeast of Theresa."
Photograph

Field South of Theresa Wisconsin

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Description: "This field is located south of Theresa."
Photograph

Cows Grazing

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Description: "Cows graze along the Rock River. In the distance is North Pole Road and beyond that tracks of the Soo Line Railroad."
Photograph

General View of Governor Nelson Dewey's Estate

Date: 1904
Description: Panoramic view of Governor Nelson Dewey's estate. The left image is of an old stone barn with a shed in the rear. The center image is another barn. The rig...
Photograph

View from Bluff Near Crystal Lake

Date: 1925
Description: View from bluff of Crystal Lake and surrounding rolling hills. There is a dairy farm in the foreground at the bottom of the bluff. Cows are grazing in fiel...
Photograph

Farm Scene Through the Mist

Date: 1965
Description: Cedar tree and farmland in mist.
Photograph

Cows Resting in Hilltop Pasture

Date: 2004
Description: Holstein cows resting on a sunny day in a hilltop pasture. View to horizon towards wooded hills with clouds in the sky.
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View down dirt road towards a man posing on a horse-drawn corn binder. Behind the binder further down the road is a horse-drawn buggy. On the left along th...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field. In the background, cows are grazing in a field, and in the far back...
Photograph

Field and Stone Wall

Date: 1900
Description: View of field, with a stone wall in the foreground enclosing a road. A group of cattle are in the field on the left.
Postcard

Lake Waubesa

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Description: View of Lake Waubesa from a hill. A farm is in the distance on the left. The Yahara River is in the foreground. Handwritten caption reads: "Lake Waubesa."

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