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Portrait of Joe Bear Heart and Wife Posing Outdoors

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on the ground in a clearing with trees in the background. She is sitting cross-legged and is holding an ea...
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Joe Bear Heart near Table of Drying Corn

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk man wearing a hat posing standing behind a table loaded with kernels of corn on a cloth drying by a wooden building. The man is...
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of a Wisconsin cranberry bog and harvest. Men are harvesting in the flooded cranberry marshes.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh.
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Man Pulling a Combined Disc and Harrow

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Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man pulling a "combined disk and harrow" through a field with a tractor.
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Man Walking Behind Horse-Drawn Harrow

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Description: View towards a man walking behind a harrow in a farm field. Farm buildings are in the distance. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Man on Horse-Drawn Peg Tooth Harrow

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Description: Rear view of a man on a horse-drawn peg tooth harrow working in a field. Lantern slide.
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Man Working with Walking Plow

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Description: Left side view of a man working in a field with a horse-drawn walking plow. Lantern slide.
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Man Walking Behind Horse-Drawn Spring-Tooth Harrow

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Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man walking behind a horse-drawn spring-tooth harrow in a field. Piles of harvested grain are lined up in the field....
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Man and Boy with Horse-Drawn Walking Plow

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Description: Seth Shepard and Willie Bletle with a horse-drawn walking plow in a field. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Children Gathered Around Horse-Drawn Walking Plow

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Description: View of children gathered around a horse-drawn walking plow at Budlong School. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Harvesting Scene

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Description: Elevated view towards seven men working with teams of horses to harvest on the rolling hills, perhaps in the Great Plains. Farm buildings are in the backgr...
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Threshing or Haying Operation

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Description: A large group of men, women and children are posing with threshing machinery, a steam engine and a horse-drawn wagon in front of a barn. Lantern slide.
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Truck

Date: 1930
Description: A 1925 Ford Model T Roadster pickup is parked in a field of red-blooming wildflowers. There is a man in the driver's seat, another man is reclining on the ...
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Men in Field with Haystacks

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Description: View towards two men standing and holding pitchforks in a field with haystacks around them. Lantern slide.
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Man Driving Horse-Drawn Wagon

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Description: View across pasture towards a man sitting in a wagon full of hay, driving a team of two horses. There is a large haystack behind the wagon, and a man is lo...
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Disc Harrow

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Description: Rear view of a man sitting on a horse-drawn disc harrow working in a field. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Man with Horse-Drawn Drag in Field

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Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man standing on a drag or float pulled by a team of three horses in a field. The wooden draq is weighted down on the...
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Harvesting by Hand (Copy of Painting The Gleaners)

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Description: Women are bending over in a field, harvesting by hand. In the background people are working near large haystacks and a horse-drawn wagon. Lantern slide.
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Men in Field Harvesting Potatoes

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Description: View of a group of men and boys standing in a field. They are harvesting potatoes with horses and horse-drawn implements. Hand-tinted lantern slide.

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