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Farm and Rural Homestead

Date: 1890
Description: Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression.
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Farm Family and Farm

Date: 1889
Description: A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ...
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Farm Family Posing Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin...
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Family Posing in Yard

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Description: A family of five posing with their dog in the yard in front of their house. On the left is an older man sitting in a chair with a child in his lap, and in ...
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Woman Posing Side-Saddle on Horse

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Description: A woman rides a horse side-saddle in a farmhouse yard. In the background, a group of men and women gather on the farmhouse porch.
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Woman Washing Clothes

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Description: A woman washes clothes in a tub on the back steps of a farmhouse. In the background, clothes hang on a clothesline.
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Farm Fields

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Description: View over fences, fields and road towards several wooden buildings. A man is standing overlooking the fields with his back towards the camera.
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Farm Landscape

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Description: View across field towards men, women, and children posing with buggy, wagon, and plow in front of a frame house surrounded by a number of farm buildings in...
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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...
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Men Posing in front of Farm Buildings

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Description: View across field towards men posing near a picket fence. They are standing near several wagons and horses near a two-story frame house and a barn.
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Elevated View of Farm Buildings

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Description: Elevated view from hill of farmhouse, farm buildings, and fenced yards. People are posing standing near the bottom of the hill behind a fence in the center...
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People with Cow in front of Frame House

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Description: View across dirt road or path towards two men and a child who are posing sitting, with a woman, girl, and boy standing near a baby in a baby carriage. The ...
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People in front of Farm

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Description: View across road towards a group of people posing in front of a farm. On the left a man and woman are each sitting on separate horses, and in the center an...
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Family in Front of Frame House and Farm Buildings

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Description: Man and woman posing sitting, and a woman, boy, and girl posing standing. In the background is a frame house and farm buildings.
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Man and Woman in Front of Farmhouse

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Description: A man is displaying a horse near an empty buggy pulled by a team of two horses in front of a wooden fence. Just behind the fence is a frame house with a wo...
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People Posing in Front of Log Farmhouse

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Description: View across yard towards a group of eight people posing in front of a log house. On the left two young women are standing near an older woman, who is sitti...
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People in Yard Outside a Frame House

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Description: Man posing sitting on farm equipment, probably a grain-binder, pulled by a team of four horses in the driveway of a large two-story frame house. A man is s...
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Man with Cows

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Description: Man posing while tending cows in a pasture in front of a barn. In the background is a fence, farm buildings, and farmhouse. Snow is on the ground.
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Girl with Cow

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Description: A girl is holding the lead of a cow grazing in the grass. Behind them is a fence, barn, and in the far background obscured by trees is a building that may ...
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George Thompson and Family

Date: 1892
Description: George "Uncle Riley" Thompson and his wife and children posing on their farm. The family are, from left to right: Bessie, mother Julia holding Rosie, Mamie...

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