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Farmhouse Facade

Date: 1915
Description: View across lawn toward the front of the house, with a stone front porch and a balcony above. A fence is along the right and left bordering the yard. Field...
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Farmhouse with Windmill Tower

Date: 1915
Description: View across fence toward a house, with a windmill in the side yard. Pumping machinery is under the windmill tower support. An outbuilding is in the backgro...
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Ensilage Cutters

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Description: A tractor on the left, probably steam powered, is belt-driving an Ensilage Cutter. Men are working on and around a wagon near a barn.
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Farmhouse Facade in Early Spring

Date: 1915
Description: View of a house surrounded by trees. Snow is on the ground, and the base of a windmill is on the right near the house.
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Man in Touring Car

Date: 1915
Description: A man poses in the driver's seat of a car in the yard in front of a farmhouse with a porch. Caption reads: "Man in open touring car in front of farmhouse."
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View of Farm

Date: 1907
Description: View over fence towards a farmhouse and barns, as well as yards enclosed by wire fencing. Animals are outside the barn. A woman is standing between the bui...
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Oxen Team Pulling Farm Machinery

Date: 1907
Description: A man is posing standing on a cart behind two oxen, who are pulling a piece of farm equipment. A brick house is in the background, and behind the house is ...
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Farm House Filled with Antiques

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Description: A man stands in the open doorway of a house. Many tools hang on the outside wall. There is a fence on the left, and a large birdhouse is at the corner of t...
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Meyer Adelman and Bridget Hursley

Date: 09 1943
Description: A man sorts vegetables into a basket while a girl looks on. Caption reads: "Thiensville (vicinity), Wis. Sept, 1943. Meyer Adelman and granddaughter of Met...
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"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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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Duane, Ann Denise, and Bruce Kirking gaze at the "family candles" on top of the melodeon which has been in Grandmother Bayles' family for six generations. ...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Grandma Bayles rolling out Christmas cookies in the farm kitchen with Ann Denise, 3, and baby Gale, 5 months, nearby. One in a series of images depicting C...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Observing a family tradition that the height of all children are measured each Christmas season on the sliding oak door between the parlor and dining room,...
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Aerial View of Wittnebel's Tavern

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Description: Aerial view of Wittnebel's Tavern.
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Aerial View of Wittnebel's Tavern

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Description: Aerial view of Wittnebel's Tavern.
Postcard

Old Falls Village

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Description: Winter view of Umhoefer Log Cabin, built in 1845. Located at Pilgrim Road and County Line "Q." Text on back reads: "The Miller-Davidson House is a 19th Cen...
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Barn and Silo

Date: 1979
Description: A barn and silo, on a snow covered farm along Highway 78, between Mt. Horeb and Black Earth. The farmhouse is behind the barn. A barbed wire fence lines th...
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Farm

Date: 1963
Description: Rustic dirt road leading to a farm. Loose stone walls line both sides of the driveway, and a large tree is in the left foreground.
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February Tracks

Date: 1955
Description: Tire tracks in fresh snow lead into a barnyard with a farmhouse and farm buildings.
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Rocks and Early Spring Trees

Date: 05 13 1961
Description: View of several trees growing behind a rocky outcropping. In the background on the left is a farmhouse and farm buildings, and a tower for what may be a wi...

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