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J.A. 'Doc' Hines Checking Cow for Pregnancy

Date: 1990
Description: Veterinarian J.A. 'Doc" Hines checking a cow for pregnancy.
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Kenyan Exchange Student at Dairy Farm

Date: 1990
Description: Kenyan exchange student visiting cows in a dairy barn.
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Extension Agent at Potato World

Date: 1990
Description: County farm extension agent talks with Potato World employees.
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Miniature Tractor Race

Date: 1990
Description: Young contestants are at their marks for a miniature tractor race.
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Bucky the Calf

Date: 1990
Description: Bucky the Calf makes an appearance at the Adams County Fair.
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Adams County Fair

Date: 1990
Description: A male teen is posing with a prize sheep at the Adams County Fair.
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Aspin and Obey at Case Plant

Date: 1988
Description: Congressmen Les Aspin and David R. Obey of Wisconsin at the J.I. Case plant. The group is standing near a line of farm equipment manufactured by the compan...
Poster

David Fine Freedom Committee

Date: 1976
Description: Poster advertising the David Fine Freedom Committee. David Fine was the youngest of the four men involved in the Sterling Hall bombing at the University of...
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Legal Counsel before WERC Hearing

Date: 1967
Description: Jesus Salas, left, is leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm workers' union. In the center, legal counsel David Loeffler and o...
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Save the Family Farm Act

Date: 1986
Description: At a press conference Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin announces the Save the Family Farm Act introduced with 27 other farm state legislators. Among ...
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Obey and Farmers

Date: 01 1969
Description: David R. Obey posed with dairy farmers as part of a photo shoot for his first campaign for Congress. The farmer in the center is Laurence Day, a farmer-Sta...
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Obey and Gunderson

Date: 
Description: Agricultural forum in Chippewa Falls. Speaking is Congressman David R. Obey, and next to him is Congressman Steve Gunderson. Gunderson was the only represe...
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Harvesters Recruitment Billboard

Date: 1970
Description: A recruiter's billboard advertising work available for pickle harvesters.

This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-native David Giffey's series "Struggle ...

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Obey and Day on the Farm

Date: 01 1969
Description: As part of a campaign photo shoot, Laurence Day gives candidate David R. Obey a tour of his dairying operation in Marathon County. Day was both a dairy far...
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Mary Kessenich Schmitz and Children

Date: 04 20 1944
Description: Mary Kessenich Schmitz, sitting with her children Martha and David, looking at garden seed catalogs.
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Huettner Barn — Alternate View

Date: 2004
Description: David Huettner and wife, Karen, milked the last cows in 1998.
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Farmers' Market Vendors

Date: 08 1975
Description: Farmers' market vendors weighing produce to sell from the back of a truck at the Dane County Farmers' Market.
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Opening Day of Dane County Farmers' Market

Date: 04 1998
Description: A farmers sells vegetables to customers at the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square.
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International Tractor with Road Grader

Date: 05 06 1929
Description: Carl David uses an International Model 15-30 tractor owned by Eldorado Township, McDonough County to pull a road grader across an unfinished rural dirt roa...
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Speaking for Dairy Interests

Date: 03 23 1983
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) speaking on behalf of Wisconsin dairy interests to the Dairy Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee al...

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