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Julian Corbisier Farm

Date: 1901
Description: Three women, identified as Louisa, Esther, and Engeline, standing in a field (possibly soybean) on the Julian Corbisier farm. Men in the background are thr...
Photograph

People Posing Around Farm Machinery

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Description: People posing in field, with a barn in the background among trees. In the center a man, three women and a boy are standing in front of a wire fence. Behind...
Photograph

Group with a Horse-Drawn Thresher

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Description: Exterior portrait of a group of men and women posing standing near a thresher pulled by a team of four horses wearing fly nets.
Photograph

Harvesting on a Farm

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Description: View across field towards a farm. The farmhouse is on the left, a barn and other buildings are to the right of the farmhouse. In the center two women and t...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

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Description: View towards a group of men and women posing standing upon and atop a thresher pulled by a team of four horses wearing fly nets. One man is sitting on a ho...
Painting

Dinner For The Threshing Crew

Date: 1987
Description: The threshing team breaks from work for a noon meal at the farmhouse. A bench with wash basins, soap and water sits in the yard to allow workers to wash up...
Photograph

Threshing on Peter Pflaum Farm

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Description: Farm workers spreading hay onto two haystacks on farm on the east side of Highway 51 north of Pflaum Road. Three teams of horses, wearing fly-nets, are pro...
Historical Essay

Wild Rice Threshing Machine

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Improvised wild rice threshing machine used on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, Wisconsin, c. 1990. (Museum object #1999.61.5)

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