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Tractor Drawn Binder

Date: 08 09 1928
Description: Slightly elevated view from right rear towards a man driving a tractor in a field. The tractor is pulling another man who is sitting on a binder.
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Cow Cleanliness

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Description: Cows in barn in a James Sanitary Steel Stall.
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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...
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Mary Griggs and Dairyman with Brown Swiss Calves

Date: 1957
Description: Mary Griggs dressed in a Swedish costume and the dairyman holding two Brown Swiss calves in the pasture near the shore of Lake Namakagon. The calves have f...
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Cows in Cow Palace Pasture

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Description: Five Brown Swiss cows graze in a split-railed fenced pasture attached to the cow barn known as the "Cow Palace". The barn is a vertical log structure with ...
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Brown Swiss Cows in Cow Pasture

Date: 1959
Description: Close-up of three Brown Swiss cows at the split-rail fence in the Forest Lodge pasture. Lake Namakagon is in the background.
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Mary Burke with Brown Swiss Calves

Date: 1957
Description: Mary Burke, dressed in a green dirndl with white short puffy sleeves and a white apron, is standing in the cow pasture at Forest Lodge holding two Brown Sw...
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...
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Early Moon

Date: 1956
Description: A harvest moon over a farm. Fence posts are in the foreground.
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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.
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Dairy Barn with Cows

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Interior view of a large dairy barn with cows. A man is standing in the background.
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Ainsley Hippe and Champion Guernsey Calf

Date: 08 25 1931
Description: Portrait of Ainsley Hippe, Edgerton, and champion Guernsey heifer at the Dane County fair.
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Farm near Columbus

Date: 04 27 1945
Description: Wisconsin Conference of Seventh Day Adventists farm buildings including barns, three silos and a corn crib on Duborg Road off of Highway 16 west of Columbu...
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Farm near Columbus

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Wisconsin Conference of Seventh Day Adventists farm with cows and buildings including farmhouse, barn, three silos and a corn crib on Duborg Road off of Hi...
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Cathryn Haight Milking Cow

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Cathryn (Mrs. Ben) Haight sitting on a stool milking a cow by hand on the Capitol View Farm, 5380 Lacy Road.
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Man with Dairy Cow

Date: 1935
Description: A man is standing outdoors holding the rope halter to a cow. He has a matchstick in his mouth.
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Cows Corralled Before Milking

Date: 05 31 1935
Description: View over fence towards cows in a corral. Men are standing on and near the fence in the background. Two horses are in the field just beyond the cows among ...
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Wisconsin Dairy Farm

Date: 10 05 1948
Description: Aerial photograph of the Baumgartner Dairy Farm, one half mile east of Three Lakes, WI.
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Contentment

Date: 01 1948
Description: Four cows bedded down together on the Newhouse Farm.
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Olsen & Johnson Milking Cows

Date: 04 16 1932
Description: Ole Olson and Chic Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932" at the Orpheum.

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