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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a farmer baling hay with a Farmall C tractor and baler. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmer harvesting grain with a Farmall H tractor and harvester-thresher (combine). |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Farmer spreading manure in a field with a Farmall H tractor and manure spreader (possibly a model 100). |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John J. Suhr residence at 121 Langdon Street, designed by City Engineer and architect Captain John Nadar. Built in 1886 for immigrant John J. Suhr, Sr. (18... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Ole Christinson, Dick Hanson, Fred Hanson, and Herman Johnson, Sr., onboard sailboat "Louis Moe" along the shore of Sand Island. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a man sitting on the steps of Town Hall. The Catholic church is in the background. Caption reads: "Town Hall and Church, La P... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro... |
| Date: | 12 07 1915 |
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| Description: | Three employees of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department working to free a car stuck in a muddy rural road. The original caption read... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Mixed doubles tennis game outdoors at the beginning of the 20th century, with a woman clad in long dress and upswept hair. A man wearing a tie is running b... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Girl selling vegetables to a customer at vegetable stand along Milwaukee pike. Original caption reads: "The little girl in charge sold over $800 worth of v... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly... |
| Date: | 10 10 1941 |
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| Description: | Eight Girl Scouts are standing on and near a tree at the edge of Lake Mendota, with the Madison skyline in the background at Camp Indianola. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters standing amid smoking timbers aim their hoses to douse the flames. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a farmer in a field pulling a hay rake with a McCormick Farmall C tractor. |
| Date: | 03 29 1933 |
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| Description: | "The old wood train." It is a class H3 train built in 1880 by Manchester Locomotive Works. John Rhine, the engineer, is shown. A large group of men are sta... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Two men pose outside Dow's store and filling station on Highway 77. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Right side view of a man plowing a field with a Farmall M tractor and a breaking plow. |
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