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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
Book or Pamphlet

Artesian Stock Farm

Date: 1884
Description: Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ...
Photograph

Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
Photograph

Man and Boys on Water Wagon

Date: 08 1911
Description: Man with two boys, possibly father and sons, seated on a water wagon pulled by a team of horses along a rural dirt road.
Painting

Haying Time

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Description: A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July.
Painting

Threshing

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Description: A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Photograph

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
Photograph

S.J. Peabody Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of multiple buildings and a body of water on the farm of S.J. Peabody. Three men are riding in a horse-drawn carriage along the water in the ...
Photograph

Chippewa Spring House

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Description: The Chippewa Spring House, a small round building with a conical roof with a sign over the door reading "Chippewa Spring," sitting off to the side of a dir...
Photograph

Wagons at Herrling Sawmill

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Description: View from roof of wagons lined up by the Herrling sawmill.
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J.I. Case Plow Works Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the J.I. Case Plow Works of Racine, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the company plant and a smaller scene set on a scroll of a man driving ...
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of Mazomanie. The church's steeple stands out in the landscape of houses and barns.
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1920
Description: View from low hill of a stream flowing through fields. There are cows in the pasture on the right. In the distance is a bridge, road, and buildings.
Photograph

Landscape with Horse-Drawn Carriage near River

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards men standing near a horse-drawn carriage on the shoreline of a river. On the other side of the river is a high stone wall with grass...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. In front of the binder is a man in a horse-drawn carriage. In the background is...
Photograph

Man on Binder on Horse-Drawn Transport Truck

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards a man on a McCormick binder on a transport truck. Nearby is a horse-drawn carriage. In the far background is a town and a large body...
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait of People in front of Unidentified Residence and Stable

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Description: View across unpaved road and fence towards a group of people posing in front of a two-story wooden dwelling on the left, and a stable. on the right. A man ...
Photograph

S.J. Peabody Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view from hill looking down at a lagoon and farm buildings. People are posing in a horse-drawn carriage on the far shoreline. More people are on h...
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...

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