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Cattle Drinking at a Stream

Date: 1907
Description: View of four cows drinking from a stream. A wire fence is behind them, and a bridge is just behind the fence behind plants. In the distance are farm buildi...
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Cattle Grazing

Date: 1907
Description: View of a field on a hillside with cattle and sheep grazing. In the background is a fence and beyond is a barn and other farm buildings. In the distance is...
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Farmers with Two Cows

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Two men are standing in a barnyard with two cows. Behind them on the left is a large barn, and in the background is a water tower and other buildings.
Print

"Walnut Grove" — Homestead of the McCormick Family

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Description: View of Walnut Grove. Caption reads: "'Walnut Grove' — Homestead of the McCormick Family, Rockbridge Co., VA." In the foreground men are working to harvest...
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View of Walnut Grove Farm

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Description: View across farm towards the house on the hill in the distance on the right. A fenced garden with a shed is in the center, and behind it are two small farm...
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Calf Delivered to Oscar Mayer by a Dogcatcher

Date: 12 04 1958
Description: Police patrolman Sylvian Kindschi (left) and Dogcatcher William Hughes load a calf into the dogcatcher's truck on West Shore drive. The calf had fallen out...
Map or Atlas

Flouring Mill of John Ochsner

Date: 1877
Description: A page from an illustrated historical atlas showing four residences, a hotel and the flouring mill of John Ochsner.
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Children Walk Their Cows at the Dane County Junior Fair

Date: 07 17 1958
Description: Slightly elevated view of children parading their cows at the Dane County Junior Fair. Judy Hurlbut (15), Route 2, Verona, won the grand championship steer...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Held Up

Date: 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene on the Road Near White Creek, Wis." and at the bottom: "Held Up". Photomontage of a cow, an automobile and five men. The automo...
Postcard

Three of a Kind

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Wausaukee, Wis. 'Three of a Kind.'" Three black and white cattle with their heads through openings in a fence, and thr...
Postcard

Dairy Show

Date: 1940
Description: Text on reverse reads: "We invite you to attend Waukesha County Dairy Show. March 12-15, 1940. Sales Pavilion, Waukesha, Wis. Judging days, March 13-14. Fo...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Fair Brochure

Date: 1986
Description: Brochure advertising the 1986 Wisconsin State Fair with cartoon images of a cow, a wheel of cheese, Ferris Wheel, musicians, and children with pie and crea...
Drawing

Pyramide de Cholula

Date: 1816
Description: The four-stepped, low-rising Pyramid of Cholula, covered in sparse vegetation, stands in a flat valley, surrounded by distant mountains. A stairway leads u...
Photograph

Field Trip

Date: 1977
Description: A Holstein calf is stretching its neck through the bars of a pen to peer at the boy who is bending over to take a close look. Feed buckets are hanging on t...
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Holstein Cattle

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view across water towards Holstein cattle in a pasture. Caption from calendar: "A Holstein dairy herd — Polk county. Wisconsin's fame as America's...
Photograph

Country Church

Date: 02 1979
Description: A cow looks for food in a snowy field in front of a church. The field had been planted with corn.
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Holy Hill

Date: 1950
Description: Dramatic view of Holy Hill against a sky full of clouds. In the foreground, cows are grazing in fenced fields.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Disk Harrows

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Description: View towards four men, each one with two-horse teams pulling disk harrows. Behind the teams is a barn with a sign that reads: "1900, F. Dixon, Orchard Grov...
Photograph

Herd of Cattle Under Trees

Date: 07 07 1928
Description: View across field towards cattle resting in the shade of three small trees.
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Tractor-Drawn Plow

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving a tractor pulling a plow in a field. In the background are cows in a field, and farm buildingss are in ...

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