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Koehler Family in a Garden

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: Julius Koehler family in their garden in front of their newly built frame home. The original Koehler farm was destroyed by forest fire in July of 1894, evi...
Photograph

Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
Photograph

Vegetable Farmer

Date: 1895
Description: A farmer stands in his vegetable field.
Photograph

Man with Farm Produce

Date: 1921
Description: A bearded man wearing a cap holds a gourd while standing next to a horse-drawn wagon under a pergola. The wagon is laden with gourds, kale, burlap bags ful...
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Man with Farm Produce

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Description: A man, probably a farm vendor, standing next to a horse-drawn wagon loaded with farm produce at what appears to be an outdoor marketplace. The man is wear...
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C.C. Washburn Homestead

Date: 08 02 1895
Description: Two men stand waist-high in the cabbage, pea, and oat fields of the C.C. Washburn homestead, twelve miles southwest of Florence. Wooden houses or outbuildi...
Photograph

J.C. Lewis Potato Field

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: Two men stand in the potato fields of J.C. Lewis. The man on the right is pointing with his right arm toward the center. There is a hard maple grove in the...
Photograph

Cabbage, Tobacco Plants, and Sweet Corn

Date: 09 27 1895
Description: A plot of land in front of a row of houses features cabbage in the foreground, ripe, four-foot tall Havana seed leaf tobacco plants in the center, and swee...
Photograph

Potato Harvest

Date: 1895
Description: A bearded man stands in a vegetable garden holding a hat full of potatoes. There is a carriage with a team of horses on the road beside the garden.
Print

The Home of Julius Koehler

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card created to promote agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. This piece displays Julius Koehler, a man, and a woman in the flourishing ga...
Book or Pamphlet

Planet Jr. Implement Catalogue Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of the Planet Jr. catalog. Features an illustration of a man and young girl (about 5 or 6 years old) in a garden pushing a Planet Jr. Garden Drill to...

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