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Flood in Trout Strem

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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...
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Oscar Mayer Farm withTractor

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Description: In the foreground on the right is a tractor belt-driving what may be an ensilage cutter. A man is standing on a horse-drawn wagon moving silage into the cu...
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Group of Workers in Field

Date: 06 29 1928
Description: Elevated view of a group of women standing in a row working with hand tools in a field. A man in a white suit and a hat is standing near other workers in t...
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Men in Field with Haystacks

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Description: View towards two men standing and holding pitchforks in a field with haystacks around them. Lantern slide.
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Girls and Boys Working in Garden

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Description: A group of girls and boys are working in a garden. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Hay Loader

Date: 10 06 1928
Description: Right side view of two men on a horse-drawn wagon with a hay loader on the back.
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Hay Loader

Date: 10 06 1928
Description: View across field towards two men on a horse-drawn wagon with a hay loader on the back.
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Farm of Walter Pippel

Date: 04 10 1938
Description: Elevated view of the farm. Original caption reads, in part: "A loud wail? is arising from the Matanuska Valley of Alaska colonists because the government i...
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First Hay

Date: 1952
Description: A woman is driving a horse-drawn hay wagon pulling a hay loader on the William Houser Farm. A child and a man, each with a hay fork, are riding on the load...
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December Days

Date: 1955
Description: A man sawing the top log in a pile of firewood with a handsaw. There is snow on the ground, and he is dressed warmly. Behind him is a tree, a stone and woo...
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A Heavy Load

Date: 1910
Description: A woman, identified as Mrs. Wallace, is bending forward as if to grasp the handles of a wooden wheelbarrow. Leta von der Sump, left, and a girl identified ...
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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...
Postcard

Returning from Work

Date: 1904
Description: Text on front reads: "'Returning from Work.' St. John's Institute for Deaf Mutes. St. Francis, Wis." A group of six women holding implements and a nun are ...
Postcard

Picking Cherries at N.C. Jacobs

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Picking Cherries at N.C. Jacobs', Sawyer, Wis." An elevated view of a group of women, men and children picking cherries using ladders...
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Spring-Time Project

Date: 04 11 1985
Description: Five men are working on a highway, placing tar and covering it with tissue. A line of cars are passing in the opposite lane. A field and farm buildings are...
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Silo Under Construction

Date: 1907
Description: View of a silo. A man with a horse is standing at the base of the silo on the left, and a man is standing near a wagon on the right. At the top of the silo...
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Mill Building — Walnut Grove

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Two men are looking toward the back of the mill building which is on the right. Behind the man on the right is the Blacksmith Shop. In the distance are fen...

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