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| Date: | 1912 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A farmer, standing near a barn and pitchfork for a portrait. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Two farmers posing for an outdoor portrait sitting on the back of a Farmall Regular tractor. |
| Date: | 09 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Plowing champion Carl Shoger holding a trophy on his Farmall F-20 tractor. Original caption reads: "Carl Shoger and his F-20 and Little Genius Plow and 193... |
| Date: | 05 03 1949 |
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| Description: | John Gates, a farmer near La Valle, standing beside his tractor. He was once a saxophone player with a dance orchestra. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Fred Esser stands in a hat and sweater in front of wooden doors. Mr. Esser owned a McCormick-Deering 6 can cooler. |
| Date: | 10 1987 |
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| Description: | "Gordon Berg, left, Brownsville area farmer, posed with his hired helper at his state-of-the-art farm." |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| 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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 1981 |
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| Description: | Farmer Ed Radke relaxes in his not so tidy workshop. |
| 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: | 10 10 1978 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "A New Settler, L. Gervoin, Rusk Farm Settlement, Rusk Co., Wis." A farm couple and dog are posing in front of their clapboard house w... |
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