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Poster

Promotional Circular of Young Woman Picking Cherries

Date: 1925
Description: Promotional circular announcing the 1926 calendar for McCormick-Deering farm machinery. The calendar features a young woman looking coyly over her shoulder...
Photograph

Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
Book or Pamphlet

Low 20th Century Manure Spreaders Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester Low 20th Century manure spreaders. Features an illustration of trees with a stone wall around a...
Photograph

Nelson Dewey Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Nelson Dewey farm, showing the house built on the site after Dewey's death. The original house built by Dewey burned in 1873.
Photograph

The Glen Farm

Date: 
Description: Farm buildings standing near the fields at Glen Farm in Dorset Hollow.
Photograph

Bodden Barn

Date: 2004
Description: Todd and Mary Alice Bodden, Matthew (14) and Thomas (10), live at N8202 Hwy 175 (Section 23). This barn has been in the Bodden family since 1851.
Photograph

Giese Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: This barn, at W2208 Hwy AY (Section 31), stands isolated in a field between the farms of brothers Lloyd and Loren Giese. Lloyd Giese and his son, Andy, are...
Photograph

Taliesin II Gardens and Pasture Below Building

Date: 
Description: Gardens and pasture below the southeast side of Taliesin II.
Photograph

Taliesin I Garden and Pasture

Date: 1912
Description: Pasture, vegetable gardens, and trees on the southeast side of Taliesin I.
Photograph

Taliesin I from the South

Date: 1912
Description: View of Taliesin I from the South.
Photograph

Log Buildings

Date: 1926
Description: Two deteriorating log buildings stand in a stony meadow. There is a stone fence on the left and trees beyond.
Photograph

House and Stone Fence

Date: 07 1993
Description: "This home, with stone fence, which is southwest of Theresa, is on Cty Trk Hwy H near Midland Drive."
Photograph

Nelson Dewey Farm

Date: 1904
Description: View across field of farm on the estate, showing a sheep or horse shed on the left and a cow or horse barn on the right. In the background is a bluff.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

Date: 
Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
Photograph

Lunt and Fontanne in the Garden

Date: 1942
Description: View down rows of vegetable garden at Ten Chimneys of Lynn Fontanne standing on the right and Alfred Lunt standing and waving his hat from a patch of corn....
Photograph

Group of Men Posing in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men posing in field around a man sitting on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. In the background are farm buildings, and in the far distance a valley...
Photograph

Road and Stone Wall

Date: 1900
Description: View across road towards stone walls, with a gate, which run along the road, and through a field towards the left. A man is using a horse-drawn plow in the...
Photograph

Country Road and Fields

Date: 1900
Description: View down unpaved road, with stone walls along the sides of the fields on the left and right. There are farm buildings in the background on the left.
Photograph

Roads and Fields

Date: 1900
Description: View across road towards stone walls in a field. Farm buildings are in the far background on the left. There is a windmill in the field on the right.
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View down harvested field towards a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Shocks of grain are piled near the stone fence running along the left side of...

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