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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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Drilling Wheat

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Description: Elevated view of two men using agricultural machinery to drill (plant) wheat. "Superior" sign is on the machinery. A boy and a dog stand nearby. A horse an...
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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Landscape with Horse-Drawn Carriage near River

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards men standing near a horse-drawn carriage on the shoreline of a river. On the other side of the river is a high stone wall with grass...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. In front of the binder is a man in a horse-drawn carriage. In the background is...
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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...
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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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Landscape View of Field and Rolling Hills

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of fields of cut grain, rolling hills and conifer trees. There is a buggy in the foreground. Horses are standing on the far left. Sheafs of g...
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Tower View

Date: 1900
Description: Three photographs taped together form a panoramic view from the top of the wooden tower built by George Brumder in 1892. The tower was built on Brumder's s...

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