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Filter: Subject of Rural areas
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Michael Baltus family posing in front of their log cabin two miles east of Auburndale Station, Wood County, with a new frame house under construction nearb... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A man, his wife and their two children are posing in front of their farmstead. The man is holding a team of horses. Another horse pulling a buggy is in the... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Ashley Bennett, son of photographer H.H. Bennett, is captured in mid-air as he jumps to Stand Rock. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype and albumen print of a picket fence and the caption: "First Attempt;" 1887, What's the Matter? "Light struck." |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype print and an albumen print looking toward Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Two men, one wearing an apron, sit in a wanigan tied to the shore of the Chippewa River near Chippewa Falls. The inside of the boat appears to have a pile ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Four unidentified individuals on Stand Rock. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Man leaping the chasm with feet forward, about to land. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Three farmers harvest grain with McCormick horse-drawn grain binder. One farmer is sitting aboard the binder guiding horses while two men, one with scythe ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t... |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | Summer kitchen at the Turville family farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Front view of a man holding the reins of two horses hitched to a sled loaded with logs on a snowy path in or near Vinette's logging camp. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand at Hein's Lumber Camp atop a load of logs on a sled to which is hitched four horses, claimed to be the largest load of logs ever hauled by fo... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card advertising the large amounts of hemlock bark in Northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men sitt... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in a strawberry field bordered by burnt-over forest. The photographer's shadow can be seen at the bottom of the image. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Joseph Steinwand Cheese Factory, with a windmill and scrap lumber scattered along the fence. |
| Author and Editor |
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| Biography of author and editor Ray Stannard Baker, also known as David Grayson. |
| Documenting a Sense of Place |
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| View more than 8,000 images of Wisconsin communities: main streets, the built environment, prominent points of interests and some rural scenes. |
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