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Schwister's Minnesota-Badger

Date: 1912
Description: John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i...
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Farmer at his Barn

Date: 09 28 1931
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...
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Tractor Driver

Date: 1950
Description: A farmer smiling as he takes the wheel of his tractor. Behind him is a barn and silos.
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Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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Percheron

Date: 1900
Description: A farmer shows off his percheron colt at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the turn of the century when a farmer's livelihood was dependent on his horses, the d...
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Farmers Posing with Farmall Regular Tractor

Date: 1932
Description: Two farmers posing for an outdoor portrait sitting on the back of a Farmall Regular tractor.
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Philharmonic Chorus Members

Date: 04 14 1953
Description: Dairy farmer and member of the Philharmonic Chorus, Donavon Doerfer, standing in his barn next to cows in stanchions.
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Fred Price

Date: 1932
Description: Fred Price poses in a farmyard holding a grain cradle which was made by his father and had been in the family for 55 years. A small granary and another out...
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Henry Otto Elmer

Date: 1935
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...
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Violet Jacobson

Date: 1932
Description: Violet Jacobson, a student at Mud Branch School, District No. 2, poses on her family's farm with several calves. There is a barn and two other outbuildings...
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The Boddens

Date: 08 1987
Description: Ralph and Phyllis Bodden pose on their farm.
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The Gorden Berg Farm

Date: 1987
Description: Open house at the Gordon Berg farm where the Bergs show off their Holsteins.
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Portrait of a Farmer

Date: 1955
Description: Portrait of farmer seated beside barn.
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Albert Roszek with Farm Equipment

Date: 05 1959
Description: Albert Roszek, wearing overalls, posing with farm machinery. There is a barn in the background.
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Husking Corn in the Barn

Date: 1910
Description: Frank and Anson Goetsch husking corn in the barn. A basket filled with husked corn os sitting on the ground between them.
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Smoking a Pipe

Date: 01 03 1911
Description: Alexander Krueger sitting in the open doorway to a blacksmith shop smoking a pipe.
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Margaret Kocher and Richard Retzlaff

Date: 10 10 1978
Description: Margaret Kocher and Richard Retzlaff of Wonewoc posing in front of their 100-year-old barn. "People are always saying we should tear it down because it's t...

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