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Rural Crossroads

Date: 05 1928
Description: Desolate rural cross roads near Palos Park.
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Parade of Wagons Picking Up New McCormick Machinery

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Description: Elevated view of a parade of farmers and young children with horse-drawn wagons picking up their new McCormick machinery. They are parked along a rural dir...
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Waukesha's Primitive Airfield

Date: 1924
Description: A barnstorming pilot and curious onlookers at a field on the outskirts of Waukesha that served as a primitive airport. Technically, the term barnstorming s...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op...
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Combine on Hill Farm

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Two men operating Case 9-foot combine with a group of men observing, at University of Wisconsin Hill Farm.
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Experimental Pea Field

Date: 07 09 1929
Description: Pea field — inoculation experiment. John Bell farms. There are signs in the field.
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Man on Combine

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Man cutting and threshing with Case 9-foot combine, at University of Wisconsin Hill Farm.
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Cut Fence

Date: 09 10 1963
Description: A boy repairing the fence at the Golden Guernsey Dairy cooperative McKerrow Farms.
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Farmall C Tractor and C-220 Checkrow Planter

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with a mounted C-220 checkrow planter.
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McCormick Farmall C Tractor and Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of a farmer in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with mounted cultivator. Rows of crops wind off into the distance.
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At the Mailbox

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern picking up the mail at the roadside mailbox.
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Oak Grove Cemetery

Date: 1920
Description: The Oak Grove Cemetery entrance gate donated by George Esterly. The Esterly family lot is just inside the gate.
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Commissary Warehouse at Fort Winnebago

Date: 1898
Description: Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon...
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Hill Crest Farm Auto Truck

Date: 1915
Description: A man is sitting behind the wheel of a truck used on Hill Crest Farm for carrying dairy and farm products to market. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Champion Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A man operates a horse-drawn Champion grain binder.
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Titan 15-30 H.P. at Work in Field

Date: 1916
Description: Men plow a field using an International Harvester Titan 15-30 kerosene tractor and a P&O plow. The men were likely participating in a demonstration or show...
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International Harvester's Auburn Works

Date: 07 19 1935
Description: Exterior of International Harvester's Auburn Works factory (formerly known as "Osborne Works").
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View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from the Countryside

Date: 06 1955
Description: View towards the Wisconsin State Capitol from the outlying area around Madison. Just beyond the cornfield in the foreground are buildings, one with a sign ...
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Farm Entrance

Date: 05 1925
Description: View from road of front entrance of the Speedwell Farm. Original caption reads: "Desirable farm entrance -- neat and reasonably constructed. Also showing t...
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Automobile Accident

Date: 05 28 1952
Description: View of the Sauk-Middleton Road where an automobile accident occurred. Taken for Attorney Farrond Shuttleworth.

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