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Tobacco Farming

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Description: Farmers harvesting and loading tobacco on a tobacco rack to take to a shed.
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Mary Shaughnessy

Date: 1954
Description: Mrs. Mary Shaughnessy standing in front of barn where men are loading the silo. Her farm was on the site where Granville School was later built.
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McCormick Reaper Reproduction

Date: 1930
Description: Reproduction of the McCormick reaper of 1831. The replica was most likely produced by the International Harvester Company for the 1931 Reaper Centennial ce...
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Steam Tractor

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Description: Steam tractor; two men are seated on the tractor and two men are standing leaning against it. One man has crutches under one arm.
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Farmer's Birthday

Date: 07 07 1983
Description: John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion.
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Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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Planting Muskmelon Plants

Date: 05 24 1979
Description: Lyle Lurvey and Mrs. Lurvey on a tractor planting muskmelon on their farm near Highway 67, south of Dousman.
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Threshing with Horses

Date: 1900
Description: Threshing with horse sweep power and men at work.
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Threshing Steam Tractor

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys posing around a threshing steam tractor. Oliver Johnson is in the foreground. John Bergeson and Art(?) are on top of the stack. Henning Berges...
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Threshing Grain by Horse Power

Date: 1834
Description: Threshing of grain by horse power, US patent.
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Flail Thrashing Machine

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Description: Drawing of a man threshing grain with a flail thrashing machine.
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Group with John Deere Tractor

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Description: Group in a John Deere Farm Equipment yard. Three women are in the background and two men in the foreground, one on top of the tractor.
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Cleaning Cow Barn

Date: 12 11 1983
Description: Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader.
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Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
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Cranberry Picker

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Description: Mechanical cranberry picker in the field. A man is standing behind the picker.
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Farm Implement used in Cranberry Fields

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Description: Newell Jasperson of the Whittlesey Cranberry Company with machinery used in cranberry fields. There is snow on the ground, and behind him is a parked autom...
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Men on Gang Plow in Horicon Marsh

Date: 09 08 1914
Description: Five men in hats and jackets, some holding the levers on a gang plow pulled by a Rumley tractor, pose for a group portrait. One man in work clothes stands ...
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Case Threshing Machine

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Description: Advertising image of a Case Threshing Machine.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: A scene in a field of men posing on and near a thresher. A man sits on a wagon with four or five pairs of horses standing around him. There is an oval-shap...
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Albert Roszek with Farm Equipment

Date: 05 1959
Description: Albert Roszek, wearing overalls, posing with farm machinery. There is a barn in the background.

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