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Painting

Peshtigo Fire

Date: 
Description: Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire.
Photograph

McKay Nurseries Field

Date: 05 07 1937
Description: Group of men digging with shovels in the McKay Nursery evergreens field.
Photograph

Spreading Lime

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Two men using a Farmall Regular tractor, a farm wagon, and a lime spreader to spread lime in a field.
Photograph

Ground Breaking Ceremony at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish

Date: 08 29 1959
Description: A group gathering for the ground breaking ceremonies for the St. Thomas Aquinas parish auditorium. Rev. Arnold Lehman, pastor, shown with shovel; sacristan...
Photograph

Ground Breaking Ceremony

Date: 08 1988
Description: Ground breaking ceremony for the construction of Mountin's new Piggly Wiggly store in Mayville.
Photograph

Larry Giese, Louie Mueller, and Gerhard Zimmerman

Date: 10 2002
Description: Larry Giese, a retired John Deere employee, poses with friends of the Giese family, Louie Mueller and Gerhard Zimmerman of Mayville, Wisconsin. Mueller, 99...
Photograph

Larry Giese, Louie Mueller, and Gerhard Zimmerman in Field

Date: 10 2002
Description: A retired John Deere employee, Larry Giese, 54, poses with family friends, Louie Mueller and Gerhard Zimmerman of Mayville, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Groundbreaking Ceremony for Grace Lutheran Church

Date: 06 18 1961
Description: Bobby Stolen, a member of Grace Lutheran Church, turns a spadeful of dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Grace Lutheran Church at Rosa Road and Reg...
Photograph

Men Working in a Field

Date: 
Description: Ten men are working in a field. They are bending over and digging with shovels.
Photograph

Snow Scene

Date: 03 09 1936
Description: Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro...
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Photograph

Man with McCormick Combine 64

Date: 
Description: View looking down at a man, wearing safety glasses, sitting on the edge of a wagon holding a shovel. Behind him a McCormick combine 64 is emptying grain in...
Photograph

Man Using Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view looking down at a man using a Farmall Cub tractor to belt-drive a corn sheller. The man is inside the open doorway of a farm building bent ov...
Photograph

Thresher Operation in Field

Date: 08 07 1926
Description: Man standing on truck bed shoveling grain into a hopper. Behind him is a storage building. Another man is standing by machinery on the right.
Photograph

Corn Crib and Truck Near Storage Silo

Date: 08 13 1926
Description: A man is standing in the back of a truck bed shoveling something into a hopper. There is a child looking out of the rear window of the cab. The hopper is a...
Photograph

Farmall Tractor Pulling a Lime Spreader

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Two men are holding with shovels to spread a pile of lime in a field. Behind them is a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader.
Photograph

Farmall Tractor Pulling a Lime Spreader

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader in a field. A man is standing in the lime spreader holding a ...
Postcard

Returning from Work

Date: 1904
Description: Text on front reads: "'Returning from Work.' St. John's Institute for Deaf Mutes. St. Francis, Wis." A group of six women holding implements and a nun are ...

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