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Westport St. Mary's of the Lake 7th Annual Harness Racing and Horse Show

Date: 06 14 1957
Description: Esther Hornung (husband Anthony), Route 1, President of the Westport St. Mary's of the Lakes Altar Society, tours the Wilmar Farm harness racing track with...
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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Barbara Notstad holding one of the ten kittens on the family farm that she will miss when she goes to school for her first year at Rockdale School near Cam...
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Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: A young man wearing a wool coat is carrying two pails across a snow-covered farm yard. In the background a dog is running to keep up, and icicles are hangi...
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Renk - Tomlin Wedding

Date: 06 28 1958
Description: Elevated view of guests greeting the bride, Susan Renk, and groom, Richard Tomlin, at the wedding reception on the lawn of the Renk farm in rural Sun Prair...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Dennis Bayles, his son-in-law, Le Verne Kirking, and two of the Kirking children, Ann Denise and Duane, trudging through the snow to cut pine branches from...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Jean (Bayles) Kirking instructs three of her children, Duane, Ann, and Bruce in the technique of stringing popcorn and cranberries and paper chains to deco...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 11 16 1958
Description: Laverne Kirking proudly smiles at his youngest son, baby Gale, and shows him part of the holiday decorations in the farm home.
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 11 16 1958
Description: Grandpa Bayles working on a wooden stool for his grandchildren. He likes to indulge in woodworking after the farm chores are done.
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Duane, Ann Denise, and Bruce Kirking gaze at the "family candles" on top of the melodeon which has been in Grandmother Bayles' family for six generations. ...
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West German Farmers Visit Bowman Farm Dairy

Date: 06 17 1960
Description: A group of 75 West German farmers visit Madison on a week-log tour of mechanized farming operations in the Midwest. The group stops at the Bowman Farm Dair...
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Slayton Farmhouse

Date: 01 02 1962
Description: Winter view from the road towards the farmhouse and outbuildings of Charles and Victoria Slayton, parents of astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton. The farmstead...

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