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Kaukauna Public Library

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Kaukauna Public Library. The library opened in 1905 and was funded by Andrew Carnegie with a gift of $12,000. Visible above the main e...
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Henckel Barn — Backside

Date: 2004
Description: This is the back side of the Henckel barn. Andrew is groundskeeper at Cedar Communities, West Bend, and Jennifer teaches first grade at Lomira Public Schoo...
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Wisconsin Chicken Farm

Date: 
Description: The chicken farm of Alfred Ruf on State Highway 3.
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Green Pea Combine

Date: 1969
Description: A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm.
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Quaker Oats Barn

Date: 10 08 1945
Description: A barn on the Quaker Oats farm on 4202 Monona Drive. A sign above the barn door reads: "Branch Warehouse of William Le[?] Warehouses, Public Bonded Warehou...
Map or Atlas

Ojibwa, Wisconsin Plat Map

Date: 1919
Description: This is a collection of three hand-colored plat maps. One map is a plat plan and includes annotations and an index that shows public land, business, indust...
Map or Atlas

Map of La Fayette County, Wisconsin Compiled From Personal Examination of the Public Records

Date: 1904
Description: Map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, roads, railroads, post offices, and farms. On the top, bottom, and sides of map are advertise...
Map or Atlas

A Plan of the City and Environs of New York in North America

Date: 1776
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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Poor Farm and Grounds

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of Poor Farm on the grounds of the Winnebago County Asylum. There is a large barn, silo, windmill, and the roof of a large building in the ba...
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Public School

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of a schoolhouse with a bell tower and flag pole. In the background is a farm, and fields and hills. A sign on the side of the tower says "1903".
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HM-250 Cultivator and Super H

Date: 1950
Description: Left side view of a man driving a Super H tractor. Subject: "HM-250 Cultivator and Super H." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Super ...
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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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Clinton-Gore in Wisconsin

Date: 1992
Description: Bill Clinton (standing) and Al Gore (in the red shirt to Clinton's right) campaigning together in Wisconsin. Although the precise location is unidentified,...
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Altrusa Club Country Fair

Date: 05 09 1961
Description: A woman standing beside chickens in the hen house on the Elizabeth McCoy Syene Road farm before it was transformed into a gift shop for the Altrusa club's ...
Print

Testing of the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1915
Description: Copy of chromolithograph of the testing of the first reaping machine at Steele's Tavern, W. Virginia." The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved Afr...
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1950
Description: Right side view of a man driving a Farmall H tractor. Subject: "No. 8 2-furrow Trailing Plow with Farmall H tractor." Where Taken: "MidW." Information wit...
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UD-24 — Cotton Gins

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 — Cotton Gins." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Tipler Farm, Parkin, Ark. The 2-stand gin and other mac...
Magazine or Periodical

Women Join the Field Artillery (Tractorettes)

Date: 1942
Description: Original title reads: "Women Join the 'Field Artillery'" as International Harvester Dealers Teach Power Farming to an Army of 'Tractorettes.'" Description...
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TD-18A — Irrigation

Date: 1950
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving a TD-18A in a field. Subject: "TD-18A — Irrigation." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph r...
Print

Rural Route No. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Bonduel, Wisconsin, with a man driving a U.S. R.F.D. mail wagon along a road by a fenced yard, a barn, and a mailbox. Pr...

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