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Farm and Rural Homestead

Date: 1890
Description: Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression.
Painting

Peshtigo Fire III. The River

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Description: Peshtigo Fire III. The River.
Photograph

"Dell Queen" Entering the Narrows

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of the "Dell Queen" entering the Narrows via Devil's Elbow as Hattie and Nellie Bennett look on from an overlook on the shoreline.
Photograph

Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond.
Photograph

Winnebago Camp — Old Monegar

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Description: View of the Winnebago camp Old Monegar at Morrison Creek Bottoms. A man wearing a hat, and a black and white dog, are walking in front of the living shelte...
Photograph

Young Women at Devil's Lake

Date: 1905
Description: Six young women posed among the rocks at Devil's Lake.
Poster

Plano Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster for Plano brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes featuring color illustrations of the implements and a woman holding two ho...
Photograph

Turn of the Century Street Scene

Date: 1900
Description: Horse-drawn wagons, including a water wagon, stand on a street next to a broad sidewalk in a commercial district. The storefronts of P.L. McQuillan and Con...
Photograph

Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
Photograph

Women Posing in Stream

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Description: Group of women in comical poses pulling up their skirts while standing in a stream. One woman stands on the river bank on the right. Behind them is a hill...
Print

Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre

Date: 1832
Description: Funeral of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre.
Photograph

"Tractorette" Operating Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth Lancton cultivating with a Farmall H tractor on the 105 acre farm of Cliff Lee. Mrs. Lancton attended classes offered by Fred R. Walkley, pr...
Photograph

Visor Ledge

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Description: Evaline Marshall Bennett, unidentified person, Miriam Bennett, and Ruth Bennett sitting and standing on the Visor Ledge.
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — India

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with a color illustration of men and women working in fields. Original caption: "India — Primitive methods are still in use. The Reaping Hook has ...
Photograph

Witches' Gulch

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Description: Up from the foot of the cliff at the mouth Witches' Gulch. Two women are posing sitting on the right. There is a third person in the lower left-hand corner...
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Larks Hotel

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Description: External view from hill looking down toward the Larks Hotel. There is a group of people on the veranda.
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Wisconsin Press Association

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Description: Group of men and women posing on rocks. There is a wooden bridge at right.
Photograph

Dell House

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Description: Exterior view up hill towards the Dell House, with two women posing in front.
Photograph

Narrows, High Water

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Description: A group of people are standing on the Narrows looking at the high water. An inscription by Dells pilot Leroy Gates is visible across the river.
Photograph

Angel Rock

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Description: Woman and two girls on Angel Rock. There are buildings on the opposite side of the river. A bridge is in the distance.

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