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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
| Date: | 08 26 1917 |
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| Description: | Barn, silos and cows at a farm. There are men attending to the cows, while the women and children are attending to the milk cans. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | The building has a fence around it and the yard is filled with trees. Pedestrians are in the road, as well as a man riding a horse. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from rooftops of what was known as Watertown Plank road, looking west from about North 35th Street. Several homes, and many open fields occup... |
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| Description: | Four men in a car with the number four on the front is driving up a dirt road surrounded by fields. Hay bales are in the field on the right. |
| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Race car #26, possibly driven by Spencer Wishart, driving down a country road during the Vanderbilt Cup Race. Two houses are on the right behind fences and... |
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| Description: | Man riding a motorcycle on a country road. Two men are standing along the side of the road, and a horse is in the background. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of people under a tree in a farmyard, with possibly a lake in the background. Two women, with heavy netting on their hats, hold luggage. A toddler ... |
| Date: | 03 09 1944 |
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| Description: | Taylor barn being moved. A tractor and a truck are pulling the barn, which is on a platform, through the snow. A smaller barn is on the left. On the righ... |
| Date: | 03 09 1944 |
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| Description: | The Taylor barn being moved through snow-covered fields by a truck. The barn is on a large bed platform. Other farm buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 03 09 1944 |
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| Description: | The Taylor barn on a platform. On the right is another barn on top of a small incline. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A farmer operating a horse-drawn Milwaukee grain binder in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men harvesting rye in a field with a horse-drawn grain binder. The men are working on the Vogel farm. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Harvey Schmidt sits on a stool in a barn to milk a cow by hand. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Harvey Schmidt sits on a stool in a barn to milk a cow by hand. |
| Date: | 03 30 1939 |
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| Description: | Harvey Schmidt stands amongst a row of cows in a barn to use a portable milking machine. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Patek Brothers, Inc., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a paint company, with a halftone image of a hand dipping a brush into a can of Patek paint, el... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Evacuation route out of Milwaukee. View from the side of the road looking downhill towards the rear of a Wisconsin State Patrol cruiser parked on the right... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ... |
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