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Reaping Scene

Date: 1879
Description: Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings...
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"No More Crooked Rows"

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Description: Inside spread of 4-page advertising brochure for Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co. Limited with a chromolithograph of a Bonanza Forge Drop planter, "The only perfe...
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Quammen Family Farm

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Description: View of the Quammen family farm with a man in the foreground standing in a field. Behind him and across the field is an upright and wing frame house with w...
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Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
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Onon Bjorn Dahle's House and Store

Date: 1873
Description: A man is standing in front of a fence along a road in the foreground. Two other men are in the road; one is standing and one is on horseback. Onon Bjorn Da...
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Andrew Thompson's House

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Description: View, looking south of a man wearing a hat in a horse-drawn buggy on a rural lane in Mount Horeb. On the right a man and three children are standing near t...
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N. Lunde Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View framed by trees of a barnyard at the N. Lunde farm. Cattle and three men are standing in an enclosed yard in front of a barn with a cupola. One of the...
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Tollef Gjermundsen's Farm

Date: 1874
Description: Tollef Gjermundsen farm. Men on horseback stand in a row in the foreground, and a stone house, windmill and barn are in the background.
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Ole Wettlesen with Horse on his Farm

Date: 1874
Description: In 1845, Ole Wettlesen and his wife Thorbjor and family left Laardal, Telemark, Norway, for America, eventually settling in Dane County. There, Ole establi...
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John P. Linde Family in Farmyard

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Description: Family in yard at side of farmhouse, boy with carriage at house front, children on front porch roof. There is a barn in the background on the left, a straw...
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People in Carriage near Farmstead

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Description: People in carriage in the foreground with a windmill, barn and horse in background. Also visible is a long line of straw-topped shelters for stock.
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Behrend Veerhusen's Farm

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Description: Stone barn with scalloped edging with people in wagons and house in background, picket fencing; in sec. 26, SE1/4. Biography in Biographical Review of Dane...
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People posed in Field near Farmstead

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Description: Two men stand in a field, one holding a cup, the other pouring from a jug. Behind them, a man sits on reaper and two boys wrestle, standing in the holding ...
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Boys Fishing near John P. Linde's Farm

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Description: Boys fish in a stream, with cattle, horses, a farmhouse and a barn in the background.
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Jerome Skaalen Family and Farm

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Description: The Skaalen family stands in the front yard of their farm house. To their right are men on a tobacco wagon. The 1985 address of this farm was 1773 Country ...
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Men on Chimneys

Date: 1874
Description: A unusual scene on an unidentified farmstead probably located near Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. A family is posed in the yard of a frame house, as is usual...
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Farmer with Boys and Horses

Date: 1922
Description: Farmer and three boys posing with five horses in front of a house.
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Stanley Herrling Farm

Date: 06 06 1961
Description: Brothers Greg, left, and Mark Herrling drive a four-wheel buggy pulled by two ponies down a driveway with the family home visible in the background. This i...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

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Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile

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