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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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Blue Mounds Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha...
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G. Gullockson Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi...
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Coolidge Family

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Description: View down a poplar-lined lane with fields and fences on the right. A man and child are sitting in the lane in a horse-drawn wagon with a team of two horses...
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Family outside of Dr. Blake's home

Date: 1877
Description: A dirt road leads to Dr. Blake's (probably Samuel M.) frame house in Lodi or Prairie du Sac. A family is under a tree near a wooden fence. On the right is...
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Two Men with Horse-Drawn Vehicles

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Description: Horse and buggy of a man from town meets the road cart/sulky of the farmer. People are standing in a field in the background.
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Children by Roadside and Horse-Drawn Carriage

Date: 1975
Description: Two young children are standing and watching a man driving an enclosed horse-drawn carriage on a gravel road. The carriage had originally been used to tran...
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Waterloo Canning Factory

Date: 1912
Description: View across road towards a canning factory. A group of workers are standing at the top of a round structure, and a conveyor belt coming out of a shed leads...
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Woman Driving a Buggy

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Description: View from side of unpaved road towards a woman posing sitting in a wagon holding the reins of a single horse in a rural area with open fields.
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Ed and Martha Wendorf in Buggy

Date: 1902
Description: Ed Wendorf and his sister Martha riding in a buggy pulled by a team of horses along a dirt road near the Krueger farm.
Postcard

A Rural Procession of Carriages

Date: 1910
Description: View of a procession of horse-drawn carriages along a dirt road through a field. The second carriage from the left is a hearse. There is a farm in the back...
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Man on Binder on Horse-Drawn Transport Truck

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards a man on a McCormick binder on a transport truck. Nearby is a horse-drawn carriage. In the far background is a town and a large body...
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Horse-Drawn Binders in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards men with binders. There are small piles of grain all over the field. Three buggies are parked near the binders. In the ...
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Man with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View down dirt road towards a man posing on a horse-drawn corn binder. Behind the binder further down the road is a horse-drawn buggy. On the left along th...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

Date: 
Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
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S.J. Peabody Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view from hill looking down at a lagoon and farm buildings. People are posing in a horse-drawn carriage on the far shoreline. More people are on h...
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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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