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Mrs. Glenn Osmundsen Bookkeeping for Farm

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Mrs. Glenn Osmundsen, whose husband works 40 acres of Sunny View farm owned by Howard King, 5710 Lacy Road, sitting at a table with a large decorative kero...
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Portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr.

Date: 09 30 1930
Description: Portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. at the La Follette Farm in Maple Bluff. There is a spinning wheel beside him on the right near a bookcase.
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The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark, looking at a cartoon while sitting on a cot in the boys' hostel at the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road.
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Governor Oscar Rennebohm Farm

Date: 05 24 1947
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm farm, on U.S. Highway 151, five miles east of the Capitol between Madison and Sun Prairie. Governor Rennebohm and Ed Mercer admire...
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Manchesters Window Art

Date: 11 06 1948
Description: Featured in a Harry S. Manchesters window titled "Dreamland," 2 East Mifflin Street, is a painting of a farm near Madison by John Atherton for The Satur...
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Bowman Farm Dairy Circular Milking Parlor

Date: 08 01 1953
Description: Interior view of the Bowman Dairy Farm milking parlor.
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U.W. Farm and Home Week Exhibits

Date: 02 03 1958
Description: Farm and Home Week visitors Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Riek (Plain) are challenged to accessorize a basic black dress.
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Altrusa Club Country Fair

Date: 05 09 1961
Description: A woman standing beside chickens in the hen house on the Elizabeth McCoy Syene Road farm before it was transformed into a gift shop for the Altrusa club's ...
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Altrusa Club Country Fair

Date: 05 09 1961
Description: Jane Howell sits in the converted hen house that was turned into a gift house for the Altrusa club annual country fair.
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Lapham School Children at Bowman Farm Dairy

Date: 11 1953
Description: Lapham School third grade children observing milking machinery during a tour of the Bowman Farm Dairy on Fish Hatchery Road. Identified left to right are C...
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Lapham School Children at Bowman Farm Dairy.

Date: 11 1953
Description: Gary Weems, a third grader at Lapham School, petting the head of a heifer dairy cow during a tour of the Bowman Farm Dairy on Fitch Hatchery Road.

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