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Sheep on a Hillside

Date: 1907
Description: View of a herd of sheep resting around a tree on a hillside. More sheep are in the background, further down the slope of the hill.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Walnut Grove Farm

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Description: Panoramic view of Walnut Grove farm. Handwritten on back: "This shows the house, barn & shop etc. taken from the road going to Steeles Tavern. Walnut Grove...
Postcard

Greetings from Superior

Date: 07 20 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Superior." A scene of sheep grazing in a pasture backed by trees. The postcard is positioned inside a painted wooden f...
Postcard

Scene near Stetsonville

Date: 12 23 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene near Stetsonville, Wis." A man follows a herd of sheep through a pasture bounded by a split rail fence with supports. In the di...
Photograph

Woolly Harvest

Date: 06 1973
Description: A farm worker shearing a sheep in a shed to harvest its wool.
Photograph

Pfaiffer Farm

Date: 1900
Description: A man is posing on a horse-drawn binder in a field. In the background behind a fence are farm buildings, a windmill and a farmhouse. A flock of sheep are g...
Photograph

McCormick Binder in a Yard

Date: 1900
Description: A man on the left is standing near a McCormick binder parked in a yard near a building. There is a wagon loaded with sacks of grain near the binder, and du...
Photograph

Man Driving Truck Loaded with Sheep

Date: 07 22 1925
Description: A man is driving a truck with sheep in the truck bed, which has a stake body. There is no driver's side door. Behind and above the truck is what may be a r...
Photograph

Child with Lambs

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Description: A barefoot child is holding two lambs close to him while sitting at the base of a well pump. A farm building is in the background.
Photograph

Pasture of Sheep

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Description: A view of a pasture with several sheep. Dwellings and other farm buildings in the background.
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Farm Scene

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Description: Looking up dirt road towards a farm on both sides of the road. There is pasture with sheep on the left. One sheep is in the road. The farmhouse, windmill a...
Photograph

Displaying Horses in a Corral

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Description: Outdoor view of a man displaying two horses near a herd of other horses, cows and sheep in the corral of a barn and another wooden building.
Photograph

Two Women and a Flock of Sheep

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Description: View towards two women posing standing near a flock of sheep in a field.
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Man with a Flock of Sheep

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Description: Outdoor view of a man posing standing in front of wooden buildings and a flock of sheep.
Photograph

Man on a Horse

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Description: View of a man posing sitting on a horse in a field. In the background is a sheep, and in the distance a fence and what may be a farm building.
Photograph

Grazing Sheep in a Field

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Description: View of group of sheep scattered in a field with rolling hills, and farm buildings in the distance.
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Sheep and Cattle and Farmers

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Description: View from field towards group of people, men and women, posing with sheep and cattle in a pen next to a barn. There are haystacks in the background on the ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 42

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Description: That morning is adrift in passing;
it cannot last the day.
Those years are anchored to each other;
there is no other way.
Photograph

Family Group on Porch

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Description: Two men and a young boy sit on the edge of the porch. The man on the left is wearing a suit and hat, the boy and the other man are wearing work clothes and...

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