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| Date: | 01 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Milk strikers and a pile of empty milk cans next to railroad tracks. Bill Nemeth (left) is pouring out milk in an attempt to create a shortage that would r... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
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| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Bell Center depot with five men posing on the platform. |
| Date: | 09 1904 |
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| Description: | Edgar and Jennie Krueger playfully hunting for eggs. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue at Packers Avenue. Shows stock yards, railroad cars and automobile parking lot. Also shows C.E. & P.... |
| Date: | 08 29 1926 |
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| Description: | Drainage Districts of Central Wisconsin booth at Wisconsin State Fair with crops on display, and photographs around the booth above vegetables on display o... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin threshing crew, with steam operated tractor, in Buffalo county. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ... |
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| Description: | Design for Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent postage stamp featuring a dairy and agriculture theme. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Jones dairy farm, Fort Atkinson, in winter. The Rock River is in the background. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Oscar Mayer meat packing plant, looking north, with the surrounding rural countryside. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Oscar Mayer Meat Packing Plant and the surrounding countryside. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A child is standing on a log lying on the ground in a clearing. There is a barrel on the left, and a campfire in the background. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Man in "sugar bush" (grove of maples) boiling down maple sap in production of maple syrup. Probably Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Grist mill. Two people with bicycles on bridge near mill. |
| Date: | 02 1914 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a bonnet and apron kneeling in a field to milk a cow. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota... |
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