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Baby Richard Quinney

Date: 1934
Description: Richard Quinney as a baby held by his father, Floyd Quinney, in the family's farmyard.
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Richard, Ralph and Floyd Quinney

Date: 1936
Description: Young Richard Quinney and his new brother Ralph seated on their father's lap in a chair on the farmhouse's porch.
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Corn Cultivation

Date: 1947
Description: Yound Richard Quinney operating a tractor to cultivate corn.
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John Quinney

Date: 1920
Description: John Quinney, Richard Quinney's grandfather, standing in front of a horse-drawn harrow on the fields of his farm.
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Grain Cutting

Date: 1944
Description: Richard and Ralph Quinney, posing for a photo with their father, Floyd Quinney with corn knives and a scythe.
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Grain Wagon

Date: 1944
Description: Richard and Ralph Quinney with their father, Floyd Quinney, riding in the back of a horse-drawn grain wagon in the farmyard.
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Portrait of a Farmer

Date: 1955
Description: Portrait of farmer seated beside barn.
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Grain Binding

Date: 1944
Description: Young Ralph and Richard Quinney pose for a picture while they cut grain by themselves for the fist time. View includes a grain binder, a tractor and their...
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Margaret Kocher and Richard Retzlaff

Date: 10 10 1978
Description: Margaret Kocher and Richard Retzlaff of Wonewoc posing in front of their 100-year-old barn. "People are always saying we should tear it down because it's t...
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Washing Windows

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground.
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Hay Mowing

Date: 1947
Description: Young Ralph Quinney driving a horse-drawn hay-mower on his family's farm.
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Two Newspaper Farm Editors

Date: 05 01 1964
Description: Portrait of Robert Bjorklund and ? , two of 30 newspaper farm editors from around the nation who visited President Johnson at the White House.
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National Farmers Organization Meeting

Date: 09 26 1962
Description: Roland Waters, Elk Mound, NFO National Director, standing onstage while addressing an overflow crowd of farmers and their wives at the Oregon High School a...
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National Farmers Organization Demonstration

Date: 04 08 1964
Description: Part of the crowd of National Farmers Organization demonstrators who assembled near the Oscar Mayer and Company plant as a "show of strength" to get higher...
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Threshing Day

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Description: Threshing day in the fields at the Quinney family farm. View includes, two workers, a tractor powering the thresher, a horse-drawn cart full of straw, a t...
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Madison Area Young Farmers Honored at Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce Banquet

Date: 11 16 1965
Description: The Madison area's 1965 Outstanding Young Farmers are honored at the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce banquet. Shown (L-R) are: Jerome Esser, Cross Plain...
Drawing

Dragging In the Field

Date: 1945
Description: An elevated view of a man on a tractor harrowing a field on a hillside. A road and field run along the left side and a small field and trees appear on the ...
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Milford Thompson, Republican Candidate for 16th District State Senate Seat

Date: 06 03 1964
Description: Milford Thompson, a rural Mt. Horeb farmer, a Republican candidate for the 15th district State Senate seat. He made the announcement at a meeting of the Da...
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Spring Spraying

Date: 1952
Description: Farmer spraying a fruit tree in blossom.
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Milking Time

Date: 1945
Description: A man sits on a stool while hand milking a Holstein cow in a stall in a red barn. He is wearing work clothes and a hat. A golden cow and a spotted brown co...

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