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Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
Poster

McCormick "Westward" Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ...
Photograph

Landscape View and Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ...
Photograph

Battle of Gettysburg Panorama #1726

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph from the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg Representing Pickett's Charge at 4 P.M., July 3rd, 1863: Death of Confederate General Arm...
Photograph

Battle of Gettysburg Panorama #1735

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph from the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg Representing Pickett's Charge at 4 P.M., July 3rd, 1863: Field Hospital on the Right of C...
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Newly-built Farmhouse

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Description: A man standing on a hill with his back to the camera surveys newly-built farm buildings and a large frame house with symmetrical features. Fencing runs thr...
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

Coolidge Family

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Description: View down a poplar-lined lane with fields and fences on the right. A man and child are sitting in the lane in a horse-drawn wagon with a team of two horses...
Photograph

Carriage and Buggy on Rural Road

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon along a rural lane with a man walking in front on the left. In the background is a field, fences, farmho...
Photograph

Farmer with Dog Loading Kemp Manure Spreader

Date: 1910
Description: Panoramic view of farmer with dog loading manure onto horse-drawn Kemp No. 1 20th Century manure spreader at the base of a hill on farmland.
Photograph

Drilling Wheat

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Description: Elevated view of two men using agricultural machinery to drill (plant) wheat. "Superior" sign is on the machinery. A boy and a dog stand nearby. A horse an...
Photograph

View of an Oil Field

Date: 1920
Description: A vast oil field displays how Oklahoma became the the largest oil-producer in the country. Caption reads: "Oil Fields near Tulsa, Okla."
Photograph

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
Photograph

Farm and Field

Date: 
Description: Composite view of a farm (above) and a view of cutting wheat in a field. Decorative elements appear on either side at the top.
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Main Street

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Description: A view down Main Street. Shops are on either side of the street. Farmer's Bank is down the hill on the right.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1922
Description: View down an unpaved street in a residential area, and storefronts further down. Near a garage on the right is a horse-drawn wagon and automobile. Two men ...
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of Mazomanie. The church's steeple stands out in the landscape of houses and barns.
Photograph

Farm Landscape

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Description: View across field towards men, women, and children posing with buggy, wagon, and plow in front of a frame house surrounded by a number of farm buildings in...
Photograph

Farmer Holding Box of Produce

Date: 1895
Description: Farmer in a vegetable field holding a box of produce, showing the productivity and diversity of his farm in northern Wisconsin. A man on the left walks wit...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 235-241

Date: 
Description: New land cut out by real imaginary lines
based in older spirit courses
lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet

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