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Reaping Scene

Date: 1879
Description: Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings...
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Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond.
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Edward Kremers Relaxes in the Park

Date: 1916
Description: Notable University of Wisconsin pharmacist Edward Kremers relaxes on a bench in a park near the time of the Wisconsin Pharmacy State Convention in 1916.
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Lumber Rafts in Narrows

Date: 1887
Description: Two lumber rafts with men aboard floating down the Wisconsin River.
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Stand Rock

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Description: Man sitting on Stand Rock, a woman and child posed standing on opposite rock ledge.
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Soldiers' Orphans' Home/Monona Academy

Date: 1877
Description: This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel...
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Model at Train Station

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: Manchesters Department Store model, wearing fur jacket hat and purse, posing with the conductor who is holding her luggage on the steps of a passenger trai...
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Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a...
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Farmyard with Barn and Log Outbuilding

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Description: A family is in a farmyard with wagons, horses and implements. A barn with a cupola is behind them. Behind the barn is a log outbuilding with a straw roof.
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Men on Horses in Barnyard

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Description: Two men are on horseback near a man sitting on a dump rake in a barnyard with the barn in the background. Another man is standing near a horse on the right...
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People with Wagon and Carriage on Farm

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Description: A man stands on grain bundles piled on a wagon in front of the barn, and other people are in a horse-drawn carriage on the left side of the barn. In the ba...
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Large Group near Farmyard and Windmill

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Description: A large group of men, women and children stands in front of an elaborate wood and stone fence. A horse and carriage stand at the left and behind them a win...
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Family near Windmill

Date: 1870
Description: Sixteen people, including four small children dressed in white, are posed in front of a picket fence standing before a small frame house. A windmill and ho...
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Abraham C. Martin and Family

Date: 1871
Description: Springfield Township, Dane County (Section 22) corner of Fischer Road and Highway 12, Wi. Abraham C. Martin, a farmer and dairyman with his family in fron...
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William Bullock Family

Date: 1872
Description: Group portrait of the William Bullock family, a group of eleven adults and children in front of an ivy covered wall.
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Portrait of Large Family

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of a family group of thirty men, women and children seated on steps against a cloth backdrop that has been attached to a frame house.
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Family with Girls

Date: 1871
Description: Outdoor family portrait with most of the girls dressed in the same fabric with vertical stripes. They are posed before a brick house.
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Family with Two Daughters

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of a husband, wife and two daughters, whose dresses are of different designs but made of the same plaid fabric. They are posed in front of a...
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Walter Dahl in Suit and Hat

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Description: Walter Dahl standing outdoors wearing a suit and hat. He is standing in the snow, and behind him is a rock or dirt wall with tree roots sticking out of it....
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Mort Petit

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Description: Mort Petit wearing a plaid coat and hat outdoors holding onto a tree root. Behind him is a rock or dirt wall with tree roots sticking out of it. Snow is on...

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