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Ox Carts with Furs

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Description: A view showing a line of ox carts loaded with furs leaving the Hudson Bay Company's Post to make the 16 mile trip to avoid the rapids on Slave River. Housi...
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Aunt Charlotte

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Description: An old woman known as Aunt Charlotte in an ox-drawn cart on fortress grounds. Caption reads: "Aunt Charlotte, Fortress Monroe, VA."
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On the River Road

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Description: Three people pose in and around an ox cart on a country road. Caption reads: "On the River Road."
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Ox Cart

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Description: Two men and two women pose on an ox cart. Caption reads: "A Florida Conveyance."
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Ox Team Hauling Wool

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Description: A man and child stand near an ox team hauling wagons loaded with bags of wool in New Mexico. Caption reads: "Ox Team Hauling Wool, New Mexico."
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Georgia Ferry and Ox Cart

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Description: A composite of two photographs depicting an ox cart and a Georgia ferry. The top photograph shows a small cable ferry crossing a river, carrying a horse-dr...
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Ox-drawn Cart

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Description: Cart drawn by two oxen on a tree-lined dirt road. The driver holds a stick and the cart holds lumber and rope. Caption reads, "'The Village Express' Rutlan...
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Harvesting Hay

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Description: A man is piling hay onto a wagon pulled by oxen.
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Luva Street Scene

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Description: View down Luva Street in San Juan Puerto Rico. Oxen carry a large cart down a narrow street, while people move along the sidewalks.
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Country Road

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Description: View of a country road as an ox-drawn wagon meets a horse-drawn sulky. Published by Averill & Aldrich.
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Rapid Transit

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Description: View of oxen-drawn wagons along the Indian River.
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Cart and Automobile

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Description: View of an man standing with an ox-drawn cart near a man sitting in an automobile.
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G. Heileman Brewing Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the G. Heileman Brewing Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, with a musketeer-like figure holding a bottle of beer in one hand and raising a glas...
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Logging Camp, Black River Falls, Wisconsin

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a logging camp, displaying six teams of two oxen. One man is posed seated in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and a...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 482-488

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Description: A man in motion moves upon good reason.

To create disorder
he must stop and settle down.
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Olga Petrova and Mahlon Hamilton rural scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a heavily retouched scene still for the silent drama "The Black Butterfly," Sonia Smirnov (played by Olga Petrova) and Alan Hall (Mahlon Hamilton) stand...
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Oxen Pulling a Cart

Date: 05 1902
Description: Two teams of yoked oxen pulling carts used to transport logs to, and lumber from sawmills. There is a large, wood frame two-story building in the backgroun...
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Hauling Wood to a Lime Kiln

Date: 05 12 1902
Description: Alexander Krueger, Ernst Goetsch, Paul C. Goetsch, and an unidentified man hauling wood to the Lime Kiln. The wood is piled up on a cart and pulled along t...
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Fighting the Russians

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Description: German and Austrian soldiers, who are jointly fighting the Russians in the Carpathians, on an oxcart.
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Scale Model of Ox Pushing Cart

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Description: Scale model made to illustrate harvesting methods.

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