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Man in Field

Date: 
Description: A man with a beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in a clover field. A cornfield is just beyond the clover field, and beyond is a barn on ...
Book or Pamphlet

CB&Q Corn Planters Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for CB&Q Corn planters sold by International Harvester. Includes an illustration of a field with corn shocks. There is a fe...
Photograph

Autumn Farm Scene

Date: 1920
Description: A small farmhouse in the Greek Revival style stands near a field with corn shocks and pumpkins. Large evergreens line the lane, and a barn is in the backgr...
Photograph

View of the Countryside

Date: 
Description: Bundles of a harvested grain stand in a field beyond a body of water.
Photograph

Spraying Cornfield

Date: 07 1990
Description: "Mark Lifke sprays corn in a field on Warner Road."
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1929
Description: Elevated view of Viola and neighboring farms in a valley surrounded by rolling hills.
Photograph

Location of Former Dunham School

Date: 1990
Description: The location of the former Dunham school as seen from the Quinney farm. In the foreground is a field of corn, with rolling hills and trees in the backgroun...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 562-573

Date: 
Description: A fire is not a place, but a containment
to keep burning.

A reassembly of inner flames around the patriarch,
A school and script for golden we...
Photograph

Young Boy with Corn Binder in Cleared Field

Date: 1900
Description: Young boy using a horse-drawn corn binder in a cornfield.
Photograph

Landscape View Over Fences

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view over field of corn, split rail fences, and more fields towards a body of water.
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man with a horse-drawn corn binder. A man is standing behind the binder on the left holding onto a shock of cornstalks. In the ...
Photograph

Field with Shocks of Harvested Corn

Date: 1900
Description: Landscape view of field of rows of harvested corn. Trees are in the far background at the end of the field.
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View down dirt road towards a man posing on a horse-drawn corn binder. Behind the binder further down the road is a horse-drawn buggy. On the left along th...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field. In the background, cows are grazing in a field, and in the far back...
Photograph

Cornfield East of Shabbona

Date: 1993
Description: Slightly elevated view of a cornfield stretching off into the horizon. Short corn stalks are growing on the left half, while the right half of the field is...
Photograph

Cornfield

Date: 07 21 1928
Description: View of a cornfield. Farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Stream near Harvested Cornfield

Date: 01 18 1921
Description: View from snowy riverbank across stream towards opposite shoreline and slope that leads up to a harvested cornfield with corn shocks. A dead tree is lying ...
Photograph

Tractor Drawn Corn Picker

Date: 10 17 1928
Description: Elevated view towards a man driving a tractor pulling a corn picker in a field. A wagon is next to the corn picker.
Photograph

Tower View

Date: 1900
Description: Three photographs taped together form a panoramic view from the top of the wooden tower built by George Brumder in 1892. The tower was built on Brumder's s...
Photograph

Patterns

Date: 1956
Description: Aerial view of contour farming. Farms and patches of woods are spread out in the landscape.

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