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Orchard and Landscape

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Description: Elevated view of a split-rail fence enclosing an orchard, with farmsteads and more fences in the distance. A man wearing a hat is posing with his hands on ...
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The Sauk Prairie

Date: 1892
Description: A view of the Sauk Prairie looking south. From the left are the photographer's brother, Frank Bass; Mrs. Edward (Ada Burlingame) Bass and her daughter, Eve...
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Bird's Eye View of Town

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Description: Elevated view of the town with hills in the distance. In the foreground are cattle inside a fence near a cemetery with a windmill. The town is behind furth...
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Taliesin II Gardens and Pasture Below Building

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Description: Gardens and pasture below the southeast side of Taliesin II.
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Pasture and Trees Below Taliesin I

Date: 1912
Description: Pasture and trees below the southeast side of Taliesin I.
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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.
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Taliesin I Garden and Pasture

Date: 1912
Description: Pasture, vegetable gardens, and trees on the southeast side of Taliesin I.
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Farmer Steadying Newborn Calf in Field

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Description: A farmer holds a newborn calf steady as it stands with its mother in an open field. The mother cow nuzzles the calf.
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Farm Scene

Date: 1964
Description: "Farm Scene."
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Batzler Farm

Date: 08 1983
Description: "Late in the day, the cows return for milking on the Batzler farm."
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Augusta Steers

Date: 1895
Description: Steers, possibly a shorthorn variety, graze on a fenced-in pasture on the farm of Chas. Silkworth six miles from Augusta. Trees and a large house stand on ...
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Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1920
Description: View from low hill of a stream flowing through fields. There are cows in the pasture on the right. In the distance is a bridge, road, and buildings.
Drawing

Landscape Plan of Riven Rock

Date: 1897
Description: Topographical map of Stanley McCormick's Riven Rock estate in El Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California. The map is identified as a map of a survey co...
Map or Atlas

Overhead Map of Riven Rock Estate

Date: 1899
Description: Overhead map of the Stanley McCormick's Riven Rock estate in El Montecito, Santa Barbara, California. The map shows the placement of dwellings and fields, ...
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...
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Cattle in a Field

Date: 1946
Description: View over fence of cattle grazing in a large, open field. In the far background is a cornfield and farm buildings along a low hill.
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Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
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Birds Eye View

Date: 1921
Description: Elevated view of Woodstock, with dwellings, farm buildings and a church. Pastures and fields surround the town.
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Terraced Drainage

Date: 1936
Description: A level pasture terrace showing water in the channel. These terraces, largely experimental, are built on the level, drainage being provided for by means of...
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Lorena Feldmann

Date: 1931
Description: Lorena Feldmann, 13, hoes in the garden at her family's farm. She is somewhat overdressed for the task in a light coat, white stockings and dress shoes. A ...

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