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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
Photograph

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) ...
Photograph

Super A Tractor

Date: 
Description: View towards a man driving a Farmall Super A tractor pulling a plow in a field.
Poster

Deering Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1883
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ...
Photograph

Trempealeau County View

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view of Trempealeau County, south of Arcadia.
Photograph

Farm Road between Fields

Date: 12 01 1962
Description: A farm road between fields in late sunlight, looking towards Mounds Creek in the vicinity of CTH F.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Photograph

Rural Paved Highway

Date: 11 08 1928
Description: Stretch of paved rural highway featuring a proprietary centerline joint, looking towards Mount Horeb from the east.
Photograph

Rural Paved Highway

Date: 11 08 1928
Description: Stretch of paved rural highway near Mount Horeb featuring a proprietary centerline joint.
Photograph

Terminal Moraine

Date: 
Description: Looking east at Terminal Moraine topography. View is down a dirt road with a house in the near background.
Photograph

Two Buildings and Farm Equipment

Date: 07 1941
Description: Two buildings, perhaps outhouses, and farm equipment in the vicinity of Crandon.
Photograph

Orchard and Landscape

Date: 
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 ...
Photograph

Frame House and Clover Fields

Date: 1874
Description: Clover fields on a slope in the foreground, with a frame house and barn below. In the far distance is a field with harvested hay stacks, and two other farm...
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

Distant View of Field and Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: View across a field towards barns and a house surrounded by fences.
Postcard

Cochrane

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Cochrane and the surrounding landscape. There are houses, railroad tracks, distant fields, a pond and some irrigation canals. Caption read...
Photograph

View from Hill of Cross Plains

Date: 1928
Description: View from hill of uptown Cross Plains with the Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) and farmhouses.
Photograph

East River with Train Crossing

Date: 
Description: Aerial view of a train crossing the East River in a rural community south of Green Bay. Some buildings are visible to the right and the background of the i...
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Holy Hill

Date: 1963
Description: Elevated view of the Kettle Moraine area from Holy Hill.
Photograph

Yellowstone Lake

Date: 1957
Description: Aerial view of Yellowstone Lake and surrounding countryside.

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