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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of passengers standing on the platform as a locomotive pulls into the depot. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Swimming in the lake with the Cliff House in background. Cliff House was a resort hotel built shortly after 1872, when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. Bo... |
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| Description: | Farm buildings, including a farmhouse and a windmill. |
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| Description: | A group of men, women and children gather on the front porch of a farmhouse. In addition to the traditional farm buildings, a windmill is visible near the ... |
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| Description: | A male peddler shows goods to two women and a young boy. In the background, farm buildings and a windwill are visible. |
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| Description: | View of a farm with machinery attached to the bottom of a windmill. Windmills were usually used to pump water for livestock. The water was pumped into a ta... |
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| Description: | In a farmyard, a man displays two horses while a woman rests on a bike. Behind them is a tall structure with a ladder, perhaps a windmill. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A man papers a barn with posters for the "Black River Falls Fair, September 7, 8, 9 & 10." |
| Date: | 02 1905 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Jennie, Flora and Edgar Krueger standing at the end of a path shoveled in extremely deep snow. Farm buildings and the base of what may be... |
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| Description: | The Illinois Central Railroad Station and train in Fitchburg. There is snow on the ground, and men and women are waiting outside the depot on the platform.... |
| Date: | 10 03 1960 |
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| Description: | View from field of the W. Blise farm. A barn with two silos, a windmill and a large house are visible. A stone wall landscapes the area in front of the hou... |
| Date: | 10 03 1960 |
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| Description: | View from a distance of a dairy farm on top of a hill. A windmill, silo, barn and dairy cattle are visible. |
| Date: | 09 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an abandoned, two-story farmhouse. A large tree is in the foreground. The base of a windmill is on the left, with a water pump stamped "Hu... |
| Date: | 10 26 1963 |
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| Description: | An expansive, sunset skyline with a farmyard on the horizon. |
| Date: | 05 25 1963 |
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| Description: | A decorative windmill in a residential garden. Large trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 08 11 1963 |
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| Description: | A wooden fence borders a farm. A windmill and barn rooftop are visible above and behind the fence. |
| Date: | 08 11 1963 |
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| Description: | Two men on two McCormick reapers at work in a wheat field. In the distance several farm buildings are visible with large clouds in the sky. |
| Date: | 05 30 1964 |
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| Description: | Landscape view from field of a rolling countryside. A small cheese factory resides on a slope, with a tree, a windmill, two cars and a tractor near an outb... |
| Date: | 06 09 1963 |
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| Description: | View of a dilapidated outbuilding and a windmill on an abandoned farm. |
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