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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
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Uncle Herman's Farm

Date: 08 02 1903
Description: Group of well-dressed people posing outdoors at Uncle Herman's farm. Harry Dankoler is the man in the middle holding the shutter release mechanism. On the ...
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Serving Breakfast at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: Barbara the waitress serves breakfast to Steve Kimbrough at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant while Albert Friedman drinks coffee and waits f...
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Group Portrait with Farm Equipment

Date: 02 04 1927
Description: A group of men and women in traditional dress pose outdoors around a Deering tractor and other farm equipment in front of a residence. The scene may be in ...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder on the Gary Owen farm. A farmhouse and windmill are in the far background.
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Winnebago County Asylum Farm

Date: 1930
Description: View over fence of a man wearing a hat using a tilling tool in a garden presumably belonging to the Winnebago County Asylum farm.
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Men Preparing to Butcher Lambs

Date: 09 1910
Description: Men preparing to butcher sheep at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A cabin is visible behind them on a hill.
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Man and Child with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is raking cut stalks from a binder as a boy is riding a horse pulling the machine across a field. A windmill is stan...
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Horse-Drawn McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man using two horses to pull a McCormick grain binder through a farm field. A barn and farmhouse are in the background on a hill.
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Farmer with Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man driving two horses to pull a McCormick corn binder through a field. Several farm buildings are in the background.
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Lesson on Eradication of Cattle Tick

Date: 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children sitting on wooden benches inside Cottage Hill School as they watch Professor P.G. Holden give a presentation on the era...
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Office

Date: 
Description: CEO Joe Widmer and Office Manager, Kristine Miescke, go over reports in their office. Widmer's ships cheese to every state in the union.
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Men Reading Agricultural Education Material

Date: 1915
Description: Professor Perry Holden (right) and an unidentified man sitting at a desk and looking over promotional materials from International Harvester's Agricultural...
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Three Men Posing in front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1895
Description: Three men are posing in front of a farmhouse with farm equipment and carriages. One man is standing in the field, another man is driving a mower, and a thi...
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Group of People with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1895
Description: A man with his back turned is posing on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. On his left are four females, including a woman, one younger woman...
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Three Men Working in Field near Road

Date: 1900
Description: One man is operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. Two men are standing nearby, with one man pointing up toward the sky, and the other man holding a bunc...
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Haying

Date: 1929
Description: Oscar Steinkopf and his horse Jim. They are haying on Steinkopf's 40-acre farm. The photograph was taken by Alvin Steinkopf, Oscar's son, a Milwaukee journ...
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Group of Men and Boys Harvesting Corn

Date: 1900
Description: View down corn rows of field of a large group of men and boys harvesting corn stalks. Several men are filling a wagon. Behind them is a man operating a cor...
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Obreros Unidos Office

Date: 1968
Description: At the center of the photograph, in hat, is Manuel Salas. One is Father Michael Garrigan, dressed in black. Chuck Miller is shown at left, and Father Mich...

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