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Deering Trade Card

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising card produced by William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features a color illustration of dogs fighting over a tu...
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Deering Trade Card

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising card produced by William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features a color illustration of dogs fighting over a tu...
Photograph

Engine Powering Various Farming Machinery

Date: 1910
Description: Man and woman (husband and wife?) with machinery powered by stationary engine.
Book or Pamphlet

Samson Corn Planters Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Samson Tractor Company, a division of General Motors Corporation, to advertise corn planters.
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin Farm Tractor Booklet

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet produced by the Wisconsin Farm Tractor Sales Company. The cover features the text "Wisconsin Farm Tractor" along with an illustrat...
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Monarch Neverslip Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1910
Description: Advertisement for the Monarch Tractor Company, manufacturers of "Neverslip" crawler tractors.
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Neverslip Tractors

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for Neverslip tractors with a headline reading: "Neverslip Tractors lay their own Steel 'railroad track'." Two illustrations show men posing ...
Photograph

Winter Landscape

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of a Door County landscape in winter with snow on the ground, taken from the Hotz Fish Creek cottage. Birch trees and conifers are in the for...
Photograph

Spring Blossoms

Date: 1925
Description: Fruit trees are blooming in the tall grass in the yard of a wood frame farmhouse. Two barrels are standing by the front porch.
Photograph

Spring Blossoms

Date: 1925
Description: Alice Hotz Apfelbach, right, and her younger sister Margaret Hotz pose in front of a picket fence along a dirt lane which is now Highway 42. Behind the fe...
Photograph

Orchard in Winter

Date: 02 1924
Description: Elevated view of fruit trees, farm buildings, houses, and a windmill with pump house.
Photograph

Orchard in Winter

Date: 02 1924
Description: Elevated view of rows of fruit trees standing near an apple storage barn with a stone foundation and several dormers. The Green Bay is visible in the back...
Photograph

Spring

Date: 05 1916
Description: A cow lies along the road outside a fence; two calves lie behind the fence under blooming cherry trees. The road is identified as Sturgeon Bay Road, now Hi...
Photograph

Cow Along Road

Date: 1916
Description: A cow, lying outside the fence, observes a car stopped on Sturgeon Bay Road (now Highway 42). Cherry trees bloom inside the fence.
Photograph

Cows in Spring

Date: 1916
Description: A cow lies along the road outside a fence; two calves lie behind the fence under blooming cherry trees. The road is identified as Sturgeon Bay Road, now Hi...
Photograph

Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a bench made of planks and sawhorses. Fruit crates are stacked on the ground and in the back of a nearby truck. O...
Photograph

Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a workbench made of planks and sawhorses. Wooden fruit crates are stacked in a truck and on the ground. There are...
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Central Farm

Date: 1919
Description: Weathered farm buildings stand beside a dirt road. Behind the buildings, the orchard is in bloom.
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Model T Ford

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's automobile parked at the entrance to his cherry orchard. A sign on the gate offers a $25 reward for information on anyone stealing fruit...
Photograph

Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's son Fedy (Ferdinand Leonard Hotz), in hat, and daughters pick cherries at the family orchard. Two of his daughters are standing on orcha...

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