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Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...
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Virginia Mueller

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Description: Virginia Mueller stands on a dune with her hands on her hips. In the far background is a valley with trees and fields.
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Kay and Brenda Widmer

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Description: "Kay & Brenda Widmer pause on a high hill on McArthur Road southwest of Theresa."
Photograph

Jayne Blodgett

Date: 1949
Description: "Jayne Blodgett - Conover Model." A photographer with a 4x5 press camera is shooting from the opposite direction.
Postcard

Young Man Outdoors

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a young man standing in front of a field of corn. His hands are resting behind him on his lower back. He is wearing a cap, shirt and kn...
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Family with Horse-Drawn Plow

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Description: A woman and child are posing sitting on a plow steered by a man standing on their right. The two horses are standing on the left. In the background is a tr...
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Pioneer Days

Date: 09 1996
Description: "As we approach Firemen's Park, we are at the end of our ride."
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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 ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

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Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
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Ladies in a Field

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Description: Four young women stand in an open field on a hill. They have all pulled their dresses through their legs up towards their waists.
Book or Pamphlet

John S. Davis & Sons Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover with text: "Oscillator = Thresher". Also includes color illustration of a young girl sitting on a tree swing. Behind her, men women and child...
Photograph

Two Girls Standing on Bridge

Date: 1913
Description: View from riverbank looking down towards two girls standing in the middle of a bridge along a road. They are looking over the railing at the water below. F...
Photograph

Deering Binder Cutting Grain

Date: 1908
Description: The Alexander Krueger family posing with a Deering Binder being pulled by a three-horse team through a field. Florentina, Jennie, and Alexander are standin...
Photograph

Posing on Horses

Date: 1908
Description: Jennie, Edgar, and Alexander Krueger posing bareback on horses. They are lined up to face the left, spaced in a row. The horses are wearing horse collars, ...
Photograph

Girl Pushing Doll Buggy

Date: 1905
Description: An unidentified girl wearing a bonnet pushing her doll in a small stroller across the lawn.
Photograph

Group Posing Next to Chevrolet

Date: 1918
Description: Florentina, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger posing next to a 1917 Chevrolet touring car on the Krueger farm. In the background, cows or horses are grazing in a f...
Photograph

Bhend Family with First Car

Date: 1922
Description: The Bhend family posing with their first car, a Ford Model T, on the Krueger farm. Posing and looking out of the car windows are John Bhend, sitting in the...
Photograph

Cutting Firewood

Date: 1955
Description: Elna Krueger stands with another woman and a man while cutting firewood using a belt-driven saw by a tractor in a field in the background on the left. The...
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Kissel Car

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Description: Two men, dressed in driving clothes, posed sitting in a Kissel car parked in a field. They are wearing caps, and their goggles are pulled up. In the backgr...
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Preparing a Seed Bed

Date: 1925
Description: An Ojibwe man is standing and holding the reins of his team of two horses hitched to a harrow. Two boys are standing behind him. In the background are leaf...

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