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Crowd Watching Agricultural Extension Alfalfa Lecture

Date: 1913
Description: Farm children, families and other onlookers watch an alfalfa series lecture by J.H. Skinner of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department....
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Rumely Tractor at Winnipeg Tractor Contest

Date: 1912
Description: Man pouring water into Rumely Oil Pull tractor during the Winnipeg Tractor Contest in Canada.
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Belle Case La Follette Speaking Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: Belle Case La Follette, the wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., wearing a black dress and hat and speaking outdoors at an unidentified location.
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Native American Game

Date: 1911
Description: Indians playing a game at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. "The man in the center is holding counting sticks. A constant drumming is kept up to make concentra...
Postcard

Grist Mill

Date: 1910
Description: View of the stone building, with a town in the distance. Caption reads: "An old Landmark, Cedarburg, Wis."
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African American Road Crew

Date: 08 1912
Description: Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road.
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Captain Dan Angus and Companions

Date: 1913
Description: Captain Dan Angus stands next to Elsie Tough, and adolescent Anne Ashley, on a dock on one of the Apostle Islands.
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Captain Dan Angus

Date: 1913
Description: Captain Dan Angus standing on wooden boat dock, smoking a cigar. Dr. Albert Gregory Hull is partially visible on the left. The boat dock is possibly on Dev...
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Little Boy in Curls

Date: 1912
Description: Reginald Jackson, Jr. is posed on the sidewalk in front of the family home, 415 North Carroll Street, dressed in his winter coat. The portrait is notable f...
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Photographic Self-Portrait of David Gander

Date: 1916
Description: A photographic self-portrait of David Gander taken in a mirror. He is posed with a camera and is wearing a jacket and a hat. In the background appears to b...
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Rambler Roses

Date: 1919
Description: Colored image of Rambler Roses growing on a trellis at the corner of a porch.
Postcard

Forest and Tootsie

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of Forest Middleton reading while lying on his bed with the family dog, Tootsie, beside him. There is a full bookcase behind the bed,...
Photograph

Leonore Judkins

Date: 1915
Description: Leonore Judkins, later Mrs. Forest Middleton, poses standing outdoors in a fancy dress, with flowers at her waist. She is wearing her hair in a bun and wea...
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Leonore Judkins

Date: 1915
Description: Leonore Judkins, later Mrs. Forest Middleton, seated in a chair. She is wearing her hair in a bun and wears a headband.
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Clara Kimball Young and her Parents

Date: 1919
Description: Silent film star Clara Kimball Young, dressed in a pirate costume, with her parents Edward M. Kimball and Pauline Maddern Kimball on either side of her. Th...
Photograph

Photographer Howard Greene

Date: 1914
Description: View looking up at Howard Greene making a photograph outdoors using a large format camera. His head is under the dark cloth.
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On the Streamship

Date: 1914
Description: Family friend Mackey Wells and Jack Greene aboard the ”Easton.”
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Jack Eating Watermelon

Date: 1914
Description: John "Jack" Greene standing in front of a porch eating a slice of watermelon.
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Jack with Fish

Date: 1914
Description: Jack Green proudly holding up several fish he caught. There is a log cabin in the background.
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Chicago Bay Post Office

Date: 1914
Description: A rustic wooden post office in Chicago Bay. Chicago Bay, Minnesota, is now called Hovland.

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