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Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming

Date: 1958
Description: Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
Poster

McCormick "Westward" Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ...
Photograph

Farm near Stream

Date: 
Description: View from hill over a valley dotted with farmsteads and a meandering stream in the foreground. A group of three or four people are posing at the opposite s...
Photograph

G. Gullockson Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi...
Photograph

Farm with Windmill

Date: 
Description: View from hill overlooking a farmstead at the base of the hill with a windmill and a pond. On the right in the foreground, two men, one sitting, one standi...
Photograph

Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 05 10 1928
Description: The Lutheran Church and buildings, seen from Lutheran Church Hill.
Photograph

Wisconsin Ribbon of Concrete

Date: 11 1951
Description: Aerial view of US Highway 14 southeast of La Crosse descending into Mormon Coulee. The original caption of the print, which is undated, describes the road ...
Photograph

Man and Women Driving on Rural Road

Date: 1914
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man driving three women in an International Model M truck along a rural road. In the background is a valley with farm buildings...
Photograph

Elevated View of Avoca

Date: 1909
Description: An elevated view of a town in the Wisconsin River Valley. Fields surround the town, and low hills are in the far background.
Photograph

Rich Valley Looking Down Mill Creek Valley

Date: 
Description: Rich Valley looking down at Mill Creek Valley. There are several farmhouses among the fields.
Photograph

County Trunk F

Date: 1925
Description: View down steep road with guard rail. A car is parked on the side of the road on the right. Over the railing, there is a river and a town with a church bui...
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View of Town

Date: 
Description: View from hill over church and cemetery towards fields and town in a valley.
Photograph

Country Road

Date: 08 1983
Description: "The camera, with a long lens, looks across the valley."
Photograph

La Crosse Landscape

Date: 
Description: View across dirt road of farms and farm buildings in a valley.
Photograph

Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 1928
Description: View down valley towards the back of the Lutheran Church and cemetery. Houses and barns are in the valley below, and more hills are in the far background. ...
Photograph

View of Several Farms

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view from a hill towards a valley with several farms and fields. A forested hill is in the far background.
Photograph

Landscape View of Valley

Date: 
Description: Landscape view down hill towards valley, with a railroad bridge over a river. Pasture lands are in the distance.
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Binder in Field on Hill

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a hilly field. Three men are standing on top of the hill on the right. On the left is ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

Date: 
Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Photograph

Harvesting Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view across field towards men harvesting in a field near large haystacks. In the background is a mountain village at the lower level of a mountain...

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