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Farmers in Field with Dairy Cattle

Date: 1924
Description: Three farmers standing in field among a herd of dairy cows (Holsteins).
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German Evangelical Association Church

Date: 1920
Description: German Evangelical Association Church and adjacent cemetery, also known as Zion Evangelical Church. When services were discontinued in the early 1920s the...
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American Fur Company Warehouse

Date: 1922
Description: Detail of the entrance of the American Fur Company warehouse, also called Old Treaty Hall. In 1832 the fur company moved its Bayfield post to the Island (M...
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Spraying Orchard with Pesticide

Date: 1925
Description: Two men using a "Friend" sprayer to apply pesticide to orchard trees.
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Edwin E. Witte

Date: 1928
Description: Portrait of Edwin Witte, chief of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Service from 1922-1933.

While the executive director of the President's Committee o...

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Birdbath at Holden Farm

Date: 05 1924
Description: View of a birdbath standing among trees at Holden Farm. In the background behind a wire fence, chickens are in an orchard.
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Canning Chicken

Date: 05 1924
Description: Helen Holden using a pair of tongs to remove a can of chicken from a metal container on Holden Poultry Farm.
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Demonstration Farm Superintendent

Date: 05 1925
Description: Mr. Schlosser, superintendent of the Oak Lake, Manitoba, Canada demonstration farm, poses for a portrait while standing against a stone wall or building.
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Woman on Farmhouse Porch

Date: 1920
Description: A woman wearing a dress and apron washes her hands in a metal bucket set on a table on a farmhouse porch. Multiple metal pails with handles and a milk pail...
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Dorothy Dignam on S.S. "Geo. Washington"

Date: 05 1929
Description: Dorothy Dignam, one of the first women in the advertising field, worked in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City, and was active in raising the status o...
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Fordson Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Fordson tractor at a selling price of $305. The advertisement features an illustration of the tractor set above a photograph of the m...
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Clara Seipp Bartholomay

Date: 1920
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Clara Seipp Bartholomay, a daughter of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp. She is wearing a dress with elaborate trim and a pearl neckl...

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