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Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a...
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Farms of Burton, Fitlen, and Rustebakke

Date: 1873
Description: View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott...
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N. Lunde Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View framed by trees of a barnyard at the N. Lunde farm. Cattle and three men are standing in an enclosed yard in front of a barn with a cupola. One of the...
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Family with House and Carriage House

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Description: Family and mailbox in front of frame house with small cross design on second story windows with wagons and farm implements in front of frame carriage house...
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Behrend Veerhusen's Farm

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Description: Stone barn with scalloped edging with people in wagons and house in background, picket fencing; in sec. 26, SE1/4. Biography in Biographical Review of Dane...
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Family with Carriages near Farmstead

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Description: Farmyard with people in carriages, on horse, standing, with barn and house in background. Long view of home with well.
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Couple Sits in Carriage by Farm

Date: 1875
Description: A couple sits in a carriage on a road adjacent to fenced-in farm buildings and an upright and wing frame house.
Painting

Schulz's Farm near Stevens Point in Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Hölzlhuber located this farm at about three German miles from Stevens Point. The region's soil was quite fertile. A wooden dwelling house stood in the mids...
Painting

Rural Free Delivery

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Description: A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi...
Photograph

Group of Men and Boys Harvesting Corn

Date: 1900
Description: View down corn rows of field of a large group of men and boys harvesting corn stalks. Several men are filling a wagon. Behind them is a man operating a cor...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Carriage and Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men are posing around a horse-drawn grain binder while two women are looking on from a horse-drawn carriage. One of the men is holding a bicycle, and a far...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: View over fence towards men using horse-drawn mowers in a field, while a couple in a horse-drawn carriage are looking on. Fences and farm buildings are in ...
Photograph

Rudolf Herrling Farm

Date: 1903
Description: Rudolf Herrling farm looking west from the sawmill platform. Three men are near horses and carts in a fenced-in area. In the background is the farmhouse.
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across dirt road of farmyard. A man on the left stands with two horses in front of a barn. In the center there appears to be two women sitting in a b...
Postcard

Group of People Posed at Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view of a family posed on a hill in front of a farm, with farmhouse, outbuildings, and a windmill. The family is gathered on a hill i...
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William Wendorf on the Wendorf Farm

Date: 12 1904
Description: William Wendorf standing in the snow in front of barn and windmill wearing a long fur coat. A horse pulling a buggy is standing with two individuals near t...
Photograph

View of the Krueger Family on Their Farm

Date: 1900
Description: View of the Krueger family standing in a cleared field, with a view of their farm in the background. August Krueger is sitting with a dog in a wagon pulled...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Farmyard

Date: 1900
Description: Right side view of a man using a horse-drawn binder. Another man is standing in the field next to two people sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. On the righ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

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Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Photograph

Fernhill Farm

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view from hill of the Frank and Bertha von der Sump farm on Golden Road. There is a modest one-story farmhouse, a barn, windmill, and four other f...

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