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Family Group in Front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1890
Description: Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos...
Photograph

Quammen Family Farm

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Description: View of the Quammen family farm with a man in the foreground standing in a field. Behind him and across the field is an upright and wing frame house with w...
Photograph

Andreas Dahl's Wagon

Date: 1871
Description: Andrew Dahl's wagon is on the side of a two-story log house in Blue Mounds. On one side of the wagon cover is "A.L. Dahl Landscape Photographer." On the ba...
Painting

Joe Barry's Farm, A Day's Journey to the South of Odanah

Date: 1858
Description: Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest....
Drawing

Radisson Cabin

Date: 1655
Description: Front view of the Radisson cabin, the first house built by a white man in Wisconsin. It was built between 1650 and 1660 on Chequamegon Bay, in the vicinity...
Photograph

Collard's Hill

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Description: Log house located at the top of Collard's Hill. Two children are standing near the house.
Photograph

Christian Turck House

Date: 1934
Description: Germantown, Washington Co., Wi. 1890-1910. Christian Turck House built in 1835 by Turck who was a German immigrant. The structure is today (1977) located a...
Photograph

Christian Turck House

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior view of the Christian Turck House built in 1835 by Turck who was a German immigrant.
Postcard

The Philosopher Press

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the Philosopher Press.
Photograph

Motorcyclists on Dirt Road

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Description: Motorcycles and riders standing on dirt road, with a log cabin behind a fence in the background.
Photograph

Little Norway

Date: 1947
Description: Exterior view of Little Norway buildings near a hill.
Photograph

Little Norway

Date: 1947
Description: Exterior view of buildings at "Little Norway."
Postcard

Doty Loggery

Date: 1930
Description: Side view of the home of James Duane Doty on Doty's Island, "the loggery." Caption reads: "'The Grand Loggery' — built by James Duane Doty, 2nd Terr. Gover...
Photograph

Doty Loggery

Date: 1936
Description: Doty's Loggery, built by James Duane Doty, about 1844-45. Side view with fence.
Photograph

DeLury Log Cabin

Date: 1920
Description: A view of the DeLury log cabin, where four generations (at time of photograph) of the same family have lived. Probably built around 1840. A man is standing...
Photograph

Coumbe Homestead

Date: 1920
Description: The Coumbe homestead, home of John Coumbe, the first white settler in Richland County, who came to the site in 1838. The original buildings were log struct...
Painting

Farm Painting

Date: 1885
Description: Painting of Paul Seifert farm showing rock formations in background and farm buildings nearby.
Photograph

Hunters with Deer Carcasses

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Description: Three men standing holding guns with two deer carcasses on the ground. They are posed in front of a log cabin in the snow. A boy is seated on one of the de...
Photograph

Two Women in a Horse-Drawn Buggy

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Description: A portrait of two women sitting in a horse-drawn buggy stopped in front of a wooden fence and a log house. Photographer's shawdow is in foreground.
Photograph

McCormick Family Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the family farm, Walnut Grove, of Robert Hall McCormick (father of Cyrus Hall McCormick).

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