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Two Farmers Picking Corn

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Description: Two farmers kneel in a field picking corn and to load it into the open back of a horse-drawn wagon. Corn stalks and leaves litter the ground around the far...
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Woelfel Haystack

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Description: View of a farmer from top of straw stack. The man uses a fork to push down the straw as more is being blown onto the pile from a thresher. More men in work...
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Car and Buggy Races at the Fair

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Description: View from the inner track of a car and buggy race at a local fair. Crowds sit in the covered grandstand and a band sits at the ready on the sidelines. A Fe...
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Sleigh Ride in Outagamie County

Date: 1953
Description: Winter scene with a farmer driving a team of horses pulling a large wooden sled on a snow-covered road. Standing to his side, from left to right, is Marge ...
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Hauling Maple Sap

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Description: Three men hauling maple sap to an outdoor, wood-burning stove using two horses. One man is standing and holding the reins to the horses while the other two...
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Threshing on August Krenke Farm with First Gas Engine

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Description: Three men from the Frank Otto threshing crew. Seated in foreground is Richarrd Krenke. In the background is Ed Fink of Antigo, and to his left is Bill Henc...
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Pumping Water from Wolf River

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Description: A man pumps water from the Wolf River into the back of a horse-drawn wagon to haul to a steam engine. There is a building on the left, and more buildings o...
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Readfield

Date: 1920
Description: Copy photograph of a man and boy standing at the road. This location would later become the site of Jung's General Store. The photograph has a horse and bu...
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Saloon

Date: 1920
Description: Copy photograph of the exterior of a saloon. A group of men lounge on the porch of the establishment.

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