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| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 01 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Wilbur Schoephorster shows her oil painting, "Hunter's Cabin," which was awarded one of 38 top state honors in last year's Rural Arts and Crafts Show.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of an open hay field with stacks of hay. The farmer in the right foreground is working on a haystack. Caption reads: "The 'Drumm... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard of a barn, with two men and cows in the barnyard. There are patches of snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 03 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | The extended Ott family posing in front of a woodpile of split and cut wood stacked against a log barn located on the Ott farm. The man is adjusting his gl... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Gustave Ott (1871-1954) and Anna Ott (1871-1954) feeding a large flock of multi-colored chickens on their farm. Gustave is carrying a kettle and Anna is ho... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard (with colored sky) of farmers in a tobacco field ready for harvest. Caption reads: "Tobacco Field, Near Edgerton, Wis... |
| Date: | 12 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Dennis Bayles, his son-in-law, Le Verne Kirking, and two of the Kirking children, Ann Denise and Duane, trudging through the snow to cut pine branches from... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Haying on the farm with dramatic clouds in the background. The John Deere tractor is pulling the chopper as it empties into a wagon. |
| Date: | 06 1973 |
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| Description: | A farm worker shearing a sheep in a shed to harvest its wool. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | A woman is leaning on a gate and gazing at a flock of geese in a farmyard. In the background are farm buildings and farmhouse with trees. |
| Date: | 06 06 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Rib Lake, Wis.", "Loading." and "Brown Photo." A lumberjack is standing on a load of logs pulled by a team of horses. Three more men ... |
| Date: | 10 23 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Scene Near Rice Lake, Wis." Five lumberjacks pose with a load of logs on a sled pulled by horses. Two skids lean against the logs. Th... |
| Date: | 08 14 1929 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Lovers Lane, Sauk City, Wis." An unpaved, rural road with a wooden guard rail on both sides. A sign reads: "Automobiles Go Slow." Beh... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green, Wis." On the reverse it reads: "Lush Farm Land." Elevated view of a farmer on a tractor in a large corn ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin. Wisconsin office of Taliesin Associated Architects, and campus of the Frank Lloyd Wright School ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Fishermans Shack, Wis Point, Superior Wis." A man peers around the corner of his tar paper covered fishing shack on Wisconsin Point. ... |
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