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Pulling Stumps to Clear Land

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Description: Pulling tree stumps in northern Wisconsin. A group of curious onlookers watches as workers load large stumps. A sign in the background reads: "Conrath Home...
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The Annie Girdon

Date: 1870
Description: Sidewheel rafter, Annie Girdon. The crew is on deck and a raft of logs is in the foreground. Sign on wheel reads Annie Girdon, lightning pack...
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Belle of La Crosse at a Landing on the Upper Mississippi River

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Description: The sidewheel packet, Belle of La Crosse, at a landing on the Upper Mississippi River. The sidewheel was built in 1868 and burned while in winter qu...
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Men Delivering Milk to Creamery

Date: 1922
Description: Two men deliver milk in cans to a creamery from the back of a milk truck.
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Squash Harvest

Date: 1920
Description: A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County.
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Land Clearing Train

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Description: View across field towards the Land Clearing Special Train, a program sponsored by the University of Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Depa...
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Holy Hill

Date: 1922
Description: View of a man standing at a fence and looking out over the land below Holy Hill.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics Department Class

Date: 1911
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics Department Class. The women are using chemistry equipment and microscopes. On the blackboard is a formula fo...
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Man and Child in Open Wigwam

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Description: A Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) man and child inside a wigwam with the sides rolled up. A cat is walking in the grass in front of the man.
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Zor Shrine Circus

Date: 05 23 1936
Description: Zor Shrine Circus group posing in front of the Masonic Temple.
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Shriners Car

Date: 05 23 1936
Description: Madison Shriners, Temple 159, with their midget automobile.
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Seed Company Grounds

Date: 06 23 1936
Description: Workers in trial fields of the Leonard Seed Company, with the processing plant in the background.
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Power Mower

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Description: Cutting the grass with a large lawn mower near the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House (currently Camp Randall Stadium).
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Babcock Ceremony

Date: 1928
Description: Crowd seated on the lawn of Agriculture Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a ceremony honoring S.M. Babcock, inventor of the butter test.
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Interior Design Demonstration

Date: 07 14 1928
Description: Home economics demonstration about interior design for the women attending an Agricultural Extension Station Day.
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Marinette County Farm

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of two women working in a large vegetable garden. A long building, perhaps a barn, and a smaller building are on the left. In the background ...
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Marinette County Dairy Herd

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Description: Two men with cows in the barnyard of farm.
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Corn Picking

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Description: Woman picking corn on a farm.
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Agricultural Demonstration

Date: 1909
Description: Demonstration of spraying fruit trees by the Agricultural Extension.
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Home Economics Lab Class

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Description: Laboratory work in a University of Wisconsin home economics class.

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