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Postcard

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

Farm Family

Date: 1898
Description: A man, his wife and their two children are posing in front of their farmstead. The man is holding a team of horses. Another horse pulling a buggy is in the...
Photograph

House and Family

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Description: Family posing in yard of house with four horses, with two pulling a horse-drawn carriage. There are four women, two men, a young man, five young girls, and...
Photograph

Pioneer Home of Nels Wickstrom

Date: 1891
Description: This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing...
Photograph

Hanging Up Clothes to Dry

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Description: Elevated view of woman hanging up laundry on clotheslines outdoors.
Photograph

Mowing the Lawn with Baby

Date: 05 05 1985
Description: Father carrying his infant son on his back while mowing the lawn.
Photograph

Backyard Swimming Pool

Date: 07 25 1980
Description: A family relaxes by their backyard pool, while a father tosses his infant son gently in the air.
Photograph

Staying Cool Outside

Date: 06 22 1983
Description: Woman stays cool by sitting in a small plastic pool while pouring cups of water on her head.
Photograph

Raking Leaves

Date: 10 18 1984
Description: Young boy and girl make the autumn chore of leaf-raking fun.
Photograph

Splash Party

Date: 08 01 1970
Description: To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built.
Photograph

Pushing the Lawn Mower

Date: 1955
Description: A man who does odd jobs around his neighborhood mows a banked lawn.
Photograph

Turn-of-the-Century Bicyclists

Date: 1900
Description: Sidney Catle, on bike, stands with his sister Sarah to his right, Harvey Richards, and twin sisters.
Photograph

Garden Party

Date: 07 12 1970
Description: A woman in a polka-dotted suit chats with two men wearing wildly-patterned slacks and sport coats at a summer party. A man plays drums in the background.
Print

Kissel Car Ad

Date: 06 1927
Description: An advertisement for the Kissel Custom Built Car published in the June, 1927 issue of the "Wisconsin Motorist" magazine, page 13. The company was the Kisse...
Photograph

Child in Wagon with Dogs

Date: 07 01 1909
Description: Stereograph of a child in a wagon with two dogs. Another dog sits behind him on the right, and a toy horse straddles the wagon tongue. The child is wearing...
Postcard

Three Boys with Wagon in Snow

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Description: Three boys pose outdoors in a field with snow. Two boys, one holding a stick or a whip, are sitting in a miniature wagon. The other boy is standing holding...
Photograph

Four Boys in Costumes

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Description: Four boys dressed in Indian costumes sit in a row on the concrete steps to a large porch of a house. A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch on t...
Photograph

Arbutus Inn and Original Snowmobile Hall of Fame

Date: 05 1972
Description: Spring scene on Wall Street. The building is the Arbutus Inn, hotel, bar and dining room. It was also the original Snowmobile Hall of Fame. Two boys are st...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Hubbard Bee Hive Advertisement

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Description: Newspaper clipping of an advertisement for the Hubbard Bee Hive illustrating contrasting types of beekeeping. The illustration is of two yards of beehives ...
Photograph

Beekeepers Standing in Apiary

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Description: A man and a boy pose standing in apiary surrounded by beehives. The man is holding a smoker.

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