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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | European farmers and young boy harvesting grain with horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field in front of a large mansion or institutional complex. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys posing around a threshing steam tractor. Oliver Johnson is in the foreground. John Bergeson and Art(?) are on top of the stack. Henning Berges... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ... |
| Date: | 01 25 1909 |
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| Description: | Large family group posed in parlor. Appearing in the back row, third from the left, Alma Reinhardt Taylor holding Ellen Taylor Higgins next to J. Robert ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The J. Robert Taylor family on a log pedestrian bridge in a wooded area. Identified as Alma Reinhardt Taylor, Donna Taylor Adams, J. Robert Taylor, and El... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man operates a horse-drawn self-rake reaper in a field while another follows behind with a rake. A girl approaches from the side with a jug in her hand. |
| Date: | 07 1908 |
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| Description: | Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store. A woman is walking on the street nearby, and a boy or man w... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Family portrait of a large group of people posed on a lawn. In the background is a tent or open-sided awning. Harry Dankoler, wearing a hat a eyeglasses, i... |
| Date: | 08 02 1903 |
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| Description: | Group posed on the lawn of Uncle Herman's house. Three women are seated on a platform swing while others are sitting on the lawn and the porch. Harry Danko... |
| Date: | 09 1903 |
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| Description: | Harry Dankoler, wearing a hat and holding the shutter release mechanism in his right hand, is stepping in to stop a possibly posed fight between Syl and Ba... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A large group of agricultural workers is shown threshing wheat in a field. In the foreground a horse-drawn vehicle is in the field. In the background are s... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A group of agricultural workers picking cotton in the vicinity of Shawnee. Several children are in the field. The cotton is being loaded into a horse-drawn... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A girl wearing a dress and hat is carrying a metal pail towards men using a McCormick automatic self-rake reaper in a field. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A view of the interior in the new Madison Public Library when it was located in the city hall, West Mifflin Street. Two boys read at a table in the foregro... |
| Date: | 04 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of street scene of a run on the First National Bank. The sidewalk is crowded with people, spilling into the street. A horse-drawn buggy is dr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children are sitting and standing in a cranberry bog, with Castle Mound in the background. A number of crates are scattered throughout the... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Hops farming, most likely in California. Pictured among the large plants and trellises are farm workers, both children and adults. Caption reads: "Hop Pick... |
| Date: | 09 07 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd in Grosnick's Woods during a picnic of the farmers of Dane County. |
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