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Frank Lloyd Wright - Choles Crash

Date: 11 13 1933
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright's 1929 L-29 Cord Phaeton automobile and an overturned Choles Floral Company delivery truck, driven by Frost Choles, at an accident scene...
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Piper Brothers Farm

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Piper Brothers farm scene, 4718 Odana Road near Midvale.
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Farms of Burton, Fitlen, and Rustebakke

Date: 1873
Description: View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott...
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Blue Mounds Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha...
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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

Date: 
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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Droster Farm

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior of the Droster farm located on Felland Road. The house was built in 1854.
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Monona Farm

Date: 1927
Description: Monona Farm, operated by the Quaker Oats Company.
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Oat Field

Date: 07 1967
Description: A country road and electrical lines run through a field of oats. On the left is a road, and a farmhouse is in the background on a hill.
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View from Hill of Cross Plains

Date: 1928
Description: View from grassy hill of uptown Cross Plains. The Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) is on the right, and farmhouses and other buildings are among fields...
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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

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

Dane County Wisconsin Rural Social Survey

Date: 1927
Description: This Blue line print map shows trade area boundaries, lakes, farm homes, railways, high schools, public highways, and townships. A symbol key is included i...
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Rephotographic Pair: 4718 Odana Road

Date: 
Description: A vintage view and a modern view of 4718 Odana Road, presented as a pair. The vintage view shows the Piper Brothers Farm. The modern view shows a house wit...
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House and Old Sauk Pass

Date: 10 18 1978
Description: View down Old Sauk Pass towards a house in a valley during a rainstorm in rural Wisconsin.
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Mazomanie, Vicinity Highway 78

Date: 07 23 1960
Description: View from a bluff looking south. A highway is on the right; one farm building is among a stand of trees at the bottom of the hill.
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Barn and Silo

Date: 1979
Description: A barn and silo, on a snow covered farm along Highway 78, between Mt. Horeb and Black Earth. The farmhouse is behind the barn. A barbed wire fence lines th...

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