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| Date: | 09 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Farmer Charles Nelson, carries a pail in front of the door to his barn. His 245 acre farm was southwest of Lake Wingra near Madison. It became the first pr... |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Farmer Sam Tanaka posing with his son on a Farmall F-12 tractor in a cauliflower field. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | The state bee inspector (probably the man on the left), and a Dane County farmer. |
| Date: | 05 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Ed Shey, left, and Peter "Pete" Strand are pictured at their 271-acre hobby "ranch" near Deansville where they are experimenting with raising buffalo, rare... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a cowgirl sitting on a horse. A fence runs along the left, with an open field in the background. Caption reads: "Cowgirl on 101 Ranch, Oklahoma... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Ephraim Burt Trimpey poses while hunting, holding a shotgun. He wears a hunting jacket and cap, corduroy pants and high boots. He also sports a vest with... |
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| Description: | Bill and Werner Steinbach pose in front of this barn, built in 1924. The barn is at W2288 Gill Road. The last time cows were milked here was in November, 1... |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | This barn on the Nickel farm was built in 1919 by Ed Radke. The Nickels are still milking 50 cows. |
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| Description: | Levi Fisher stands holding a bundle of mail in front of a Farmall A tractor that has been fitted with a homemade cab to deliver the U.S. Mail. The cab has ... |
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| Description: | Spencer Tracy poses on railroad tracks holding a hat. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Schlitz Park Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with halftone views of the park gateway and a two-story open-air pavilion with an overlook,... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Henry Otto Elmer, wearing a cap and bib overalls, poses in front of his large dairy barn. There are twin silos on the right with a decorative pattern in th... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Russell, left, and Ira Wepking pose as they pause from bringing in the dairy cows; they have taken off their hats, which are on the ground. A small dog sta... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ... |
| Date: | 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Albert Roszek, wearing overalls, posing with farm machinery. There is a barn in the background. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Alexander and August Krueger loading manure into a Litchfield manure spreader. Alexander is sitting on the spreader holding the reins of the three-horse te... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Catalog featuring calendar pages. February features Lewis Miller, the father of the mowing machine, with text and a portrait. March has an illustration of ... |
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| Description: | A man and child pose sitting on a tractor in a farmyard. In the background is a barn, and piles of hay behind a fence on the right. In the far background i... |
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| Description: | Sid standing with a fishing pole in his backyard. He is wearing folded down hip waders and he has a cigar in his mouth. He is standing with his foot proppe... |
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