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| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. This view from East Washington Avenue shows photographer Andrew Dahl on his horse "Curnel" in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dahl had j... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | John Parman's Blacksmith, Wagon & Carriage Shop. A large group of men, including workers in leather aprons, are standing with carriages and wagon wheels ou... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon... |
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| Description: | An "improved" herd of cattle standing in a fenced-in yard. The herd includes shorthorns, linebacks and, perhaps, Ayrshires. A man is standing in the yard h... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View of the Ole Wettlesen barnyard. A man is standing and holding a pail in the center near a lineback cow. People, cattle, sheep, horses, a barn, haysta... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Men and a boy are in a barnyard with sheep and cattle. |
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| Description: | Men are in a farmyard (possibly at a sorghum mill) with horses hitched to a central-rig. A haystack, barn, wagons and farm machinery are in the background. |
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| Description: | Barn raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's home. Crew members can be seen mortising freshly hewn timbers with a hand-operated boring machine. Men are also seen ... |
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| Description: | A work crew raising the bents of a barn framing system using pike poles. A valley is in the background beyond the hill where the barn is being constructed. |
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| Description: | Dahl took a series of pictures of barn raisings, one of many community activities he photographed. Here the crew is installing a top plate on the side wall... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A boy and three men are in a field in the foreground with a manual rake reaper and other harvesting tools. Various farmstead buildings, a fence and Lombard... |
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| Description: | Farmers standing in a wheat field. The men are holding a hand-operated cradle scythe and a rake. A frame house is in the background along with several farm... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | In 1845, Ole Wettlesen and his wife Thorbjor and family left Laardal, Telemark, Norway, for America, eventually settling in Dane County. There, Ole establi... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Family and baby carriage next to wooden tower windmill with house behind them. A.L. Dahl, landscape photographer, wagon, left. |
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| Description: | A man is standing in a field with corn and other crops, with a windmill on a wooden tower and a barn in the background. Two carriages are also visible, one... |
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| Description: | A view of the back of the Dahl residence, a second empire style house seen from across a field with a barn and other outbuildings in the background. In the... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Brick house with well-landscaped property and unusual board fence. A.L. Dahl's photographic wagon is in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A man and two women are standing along a fence in the foreground, and another woman is standing on the porch. In the background is Samuel Barber's frame ho... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl... |
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