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Halvor Nerison Hauge and Other Farmers

Date: 1874
Description: Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) had much to be proud of in 1874: an imposing brick house, modern harvesting equipment and a growing family. When Dahl publ...
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Dr. Babcock with Butterfat Tester

Date: 1926
Description: Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester.
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Testing Apparatus for McCormick-Deering Combine

Date: 1940
Description: McCormick-Deering #42 combine connected to a testing apparatus at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed in 1933 and was ...
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White Pine Forest

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Description: View of White Pine Forest in Flambeau State Park.
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Blockhouse Mine

Date: 1940
Description: Blockhouse lead mine with cows grazing.
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Farm Family with Implements

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Description: A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ...
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Mrs. Streeter in Her Garden

Date: 05 09 1917
Description: Mrs. Streeter, wife of Chicago eccentric George Wellington Streeter, posing with her dog in her garden in "Streeterville."
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Picking Corn with Farmall H Tractor and No. 24 Corn Picker

Date: 10 28 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of farmer Jack Warren picking corn with a McCormick Farmall H tractor and a No. 24 corn picker.
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Three Men Haying

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Description: Three men with a wagon are on the left, with a barn, broken fence and farm implement on the right.
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Tobacco Harvest

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Description: Men in field with tobacco on wagon, and a barn and an outbuilding in the background. This is Lewis Dahl's tobacco harvest in back of his father's home (Nel...
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Men Playing Baseball

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Description: Men on field playing baseball.
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Men's Baseball Team

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Description: Men's baseball team. Windsor, DeForest insignias (?).
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Men's Baseball Team

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Description: Men's baseball team. One man is wearing a DeForest Imp. Co. jacket.
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DeForest Men's Baseball Team

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Description: DeForest men's baseball team on playing field.
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Married Men's Baseball Team

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Married men's baseball team. Nine men are posing, and one man on the far right has a Windsor insignia on his jacket.
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Tramway

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Description: An engraving based on a drawing by Alexander Simplot. The image shows a very detailed aerial view of a hillside with a tramway traversing the side. There a...
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Woman Working with Milk Cans

Date: 1924
Description: Woman standing at a table with milk cans on it. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. A caption with th...
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Backyard Bee Apiary

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Description: A man wears bee protection, in what appears to be a small apiary in his backyard.
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Iowa and Wisconsin Beekeepers

Date: 05 19 1914
Description: A group portrait of Iowa and Wisconsin beekeepers in the woods with houses in the background.
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Man Checks Beehives

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Description: Beekeeper checks his beehives.

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