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| Description: | Country home that is nearly hidden by trees. |
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| Description: | View of a bridge, several wooden frame buildings, and farm land covered with snow. This land is possibly Narracong, later named Loaschings Millon Squire Cr... |
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| Description: | Farm buildings, including a farmhouse and a windmill. |
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| Description: | A woman stands on a road that travels through a farm. There are several farm buildings visible along with a wagon. |
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| Description: | A group of men, women and children gather on the front porch of a farmhouse. In addition to the traditional farm buildings, a windmill is visible near the ... |
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| Description: | A young girl stands in front of a two-story frame house that is surrounded by a wooden fence. |
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| Description: | A log cabin is visible on the right, with a corn crib near the center of the photograph. In addition, wooden farm sheds are visible along with various equi... |
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| Description: | A barn with three open doors. Through the main door to the barn, hay is visible. |
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| Description: | Several horses run in a field, with a mare nursing a foal in the foreground. |
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| Description: | A farmer is carrying buckets, presumably to feed his hogs that are following him in the pen. |
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| Description: | Probably a first plowing of land after the trees and stumps have been removed by grubbing. Many roots still remain, and the "breaking plow" turns a wide fu... |
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| Description: | A man stands with a team of horses ready to plow a field. |
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| Description: | A man uses a hand cultivator in a field of what could possibly be onions. |
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| Description: | Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row. |
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| Description: | Two teams of horses pull two self-binders through a field. The self-binder came into use after the reaper, both of which were superceded by the combine. |
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| Description: | Three men operate a stump extractor in a field. The piece of machinery was probably a Svenson Grubber sold by J. H. Carnahan. |
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| Description: | A group of men and women stand in a field with a stump extracting rig. |
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| Description: | Three men working with a two-horse team on a hill turning a winch to extract stumps, probably a Svenson Grubber sold by J.H. Carnahan. |
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