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Milkmaid with Cow

Date: 1911
Description: Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads."
Photograph

Tobacco Farming

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

Cattle Pens at Lodi Depot

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of cattle yards near the railroad tracks. A farm and farm buildings can be seen in the background.
Photograph

Philip Berndt's Farm

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Description: Hand-colored photograph of a Wisconsin farm.
Photograph

Farm Scene

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Description: Hand-colored view of a farm taken from the road.
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Man Standing in front of Farm House

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Description: Man wearing coveralls standing in front of a small farm house. He has a towel over one arm and is holding a skillet in the other hand. There is a cat eatin...
Photograph

Farm on Washington Island

Date: 07 1929
Description: View of a farm taken from a field. Barn, farmhouse, and a windmill are visible behind trees, perhaps an orchard.
Postcard

The Return From the Alps

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Description: Color postcard of a Swiss farmer returning home with his animals. Many of the animals, and five of the shepherds, are labeled with a name. The path loops b...
Photograph

Farm of Elmer Willis Sesl (Seil)

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Description: The Elmer Willis Sesl (sp?) farm. The photograph has the term "Exhibit "B"" written on the front in ink.
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Christmas in Buffalo County

Date: 1950
Description: Winter scene of a snow-covered hillside with a farm below.
Photograph

Tom Nee Farm

Date: 06 1976
Description: Caption on back of photograph: "Tom Nee farm, 3 miles SE of Richland Center. Looking west over Pine River Valley. Early summer, 1976. TION; RIE; S 1/2 NW 1...
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Farm Buildings and a Field

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Description: Two small wooden farm buildings in tall grass next to a plowed field.
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Late Summer on a Farm

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Description: Black and white photograph of the painting titled "Late Summer." The painting depicts a farmhouse and a barn.
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Farm Wagon and Buildings

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Description: The frame of a broken wagon sits in a field. In the background are in several farm buildings and a farmhouse.
Photograph

Wisconsin Colonization Company Farm

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Description: View across road of a woman standing by a fence at Wisconsin Colonization Company Farm in northern Wisconsin. There is a farm building to the right and sev...
Photograph

Oat Harvest

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Description: View across field of a man driving a team of horses in a field harvesting oats in the Fox River Valley.
Photograph

Lower Valley Farms in Castle Rock

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of two farms, with fields and barns in a valley. This image appeared in Joseph Schafer's 1932 book The Wisconsin Lead Region, on a photo...
Photograph

Elevated View of Farm

Date: 1897
Description: View down hill towards a farm in a valley, with wooded bluffs in the background. In the foreground, a fence is at the top of the hill overlooking the farm....
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M.M. Rice Farm

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Description: View towards a farm at the base of a hillside, with smoke coming out of a chimney on a farmhouse, and two outbuildings. A group of eight people are posing ...
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William M. Jones House and Farm

Date: 1878
Description: View towards a house and farm buildings. Caption reads: "Barneveld, Wis. Vic[inity]. Ridgeway Twp [township], Hwy [Highway] K. House built 1878 by William ...

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