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| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Ranzer's prosperous farm was hewn out of the forest rather than the prairie. This was "of course more difficult" and needed hired help to fell and burn the... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | The fertillity of the soil in America and Canada, especially in Wisconsin, was the attraction for most European immigrants. The vast amount of land and the... |
| Date: | 03 24 1913 |
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| Description: | Picnic Point from the University Farm fields, now known as Observatory Hill. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Rural landscape with farm buildings seen from across a field and framed by trees. |
| Date: | 07 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Eagle Heights Farm, Eagle Heights Woods and part of Lake Mendota. Sites labeled on the image are Eagle Heights, Tent Colony, Apartment Site,... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from hill of a farm near a pond. There are homes along the far shoreline, and a lake and hills in the far background. |
| Date: | 07 19 1895 |
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| Description: | Man and dog standing in a field of spring wheat on the farm of Ferdinand Ledke. Another man is standing in the background, facing the forest. |
| Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand waist-high in the cabbage, pea, and oat fields of the C.C. Washburn homestead, twelve miles southwest of Florence. Wooden houses or outbuildi... |
| Date: | 07 30 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in the five-foot tall pea field of Joseph Seipold three miles northeast of Antigo. Another man stands atop a horse-drawn wagon loaded with ha... |
| Date: | 07 09 1895 |
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| Description: | A twenty-acre field of barley on the farm of Chas Parey, with two men standing waist-high in the barley. A hardwood forest lines the edge of the field in t... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two women, a man and a child posing on a road adjoining their homestead, with stumpland and a forest behind them. |
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| Description: | Map of northern Iron County, Wisconsin, shows town sections and railroads in the towns of Saxon, Kimball, and Gurney. It also includes the area of the La P... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | This map is 1 of 7 and includes a location map and township diagram in the margins. The map includes a key of land type: Residential (yellow), Commercial (... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | This map is 2 of 7 and includes a location map and township diagram in the bottom margin. The map includes a key of land type: Residential (yellow), Commer... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | This map is 3 of 7 and includes a location map and township diagram in the margins. The map includes a key of land type: Residential (yellow), Commercial (... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | This map is 4 of 7 and includes a location map and township diagram in the left margin. The map includes a key of land type: Residential (yellow), Commerci... |
| Date: | 03 1777 |
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| Description: | Map showing the British and Hessian attack on Fort Washington in November of 1776. The movements and fortifications of the British and Hessian troops appea... |
| Date: | 1776 |
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| Description: | Fairly detailed map of New York City and parts of Long Island. It shows streets, roads, wharves, ferries, ship yards, Fort George and the battery, public b... |
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