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Painting

Peshtigo Fire

Date: 
Description: Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire.
Photograph

Dangers of TNT

Date: 08 1927
Description: A man holding a metal instrument approaching a tree stump to inspect why a dynamite blast did not go off.
Photograph

Mowing Machine Hazards

Date: 07 1927
Description: A man is kneeling on the ground beside a mower hitched to two horses while performing repairs. An agricultural tool is lying on the ground beside him.
Postcard

Tornado Damage

Date: 1924
Description: Damage caused by a tornado to a barn near Reseburg. The caption notes that the farm was rented and that "moonshine" was being made there. Some locals at t...
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Photograph

Flood in Trout Strem

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline looking through fences towards a man standing in knee-deep water holding a net and scooping water into a bucket. Patches of land and tr...
Photograph

Waukesha County Dragging Operation

Date: 01 05 1955
Description: Elevated view of two people breaking ice with an ax and an ice breaking pole [a gaff?]; other people in the background are standing in a boat pushing poles...

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