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Team of Oxen in Front of Sod Shanty

Date:	1885
Description:	Team of oxen in front of a sod shanty on the Dakota plains. Two men stand behind the team on the right. The animals are hitched to a plow.

Photograph

A Prairie Farm

Date:	1886
Description:	View across field towards a farm, with farmhouse, barn, outbuildings, and fences. The photograph appeared in Joseph Schafer's 1932 book The Wisconsin Le...

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