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Farm Family and Farm

Date: 1889
Description: A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ...
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Family on Wrap-Around Porch

Date: 1873
Description: A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston...
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Family Seated in front of House

Date: 1875
Description: Large bracket house with shutters and man on porch; carpenter's lace in excess; family seated in yard in front of house. House also has latticework at foun...
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Playing Croquet

Date: 1873
Description: Six people playing croquet in front of picket fence; frame house with shutters and latticework on porch in background.
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Family and Child on Fence

Date: 1870
Description: Family by wood fence with one child sitting on top of gate; wood house with upper window shutter closed and shutter trim around doorway; trellis by porch. ...
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Family of Fourteen

Date: 1871
Description: A family of fourteen in yard outside upright and wing frame house on stone foundation, with board fencing in the foreground.
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Home and Farm of Halvor Nerison Hauge

Date: 1874
Description: Christiana Township, Wis. Section 18. A group of twenty-one people in front of large brick house that has shutters, porch on at least two sides, trim aroun...
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A Family, their Carriage, and their House

Date: 1875
Description: An unidentified family proudly posed in front of their brick, Greek Revival home, with their carriage and team of horses. Although the location is unidenti...
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Women on Horses

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of family in yard. Two women are posing on horses, one man has a rifle, and another man has a hoe. A woman is sitting in front of the porch ...
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First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
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Funeral Party around Casket

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of a large funeral party assembled around a casket in front of an upright-and-wing frame house. Two older men on the left, one identified as...
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Gullik K. Springen and Family

Date: 1878
Description: This is possibly a Gullik K. Springen family portrait.
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La Belle House

Date: 1867
Description: A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta...
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Self-Binding Harvester

Date: 1899
Description: A man is operating a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses. The original caption reads: "This machine represents the modern harvester by which grain ...
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Men with Self-Binding Harvester

Date: 1899
Description: Two men are operating a horse-drawn McCormick twine grain binder in a field.
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McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A man is operating a McCormick wire binder driven by two horses.
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Man with McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: Man operating a McCormick wire binder driven by two horses through a field.
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Men with McCormick Harvester

Date: 1899
Description: A man is operating a McCormick self-binding harvester driven by two horses, while two men are standing beside him in a field. The harvester was built in 18...
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McCormick Wire Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of farmers are using a McCormick wire grain binder, built in 1876. A horse-drawn carriage is in the background. The original caption reads: "The im...
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Corn Crops in Taylor County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional cards showing the plentiful corn crops of John Carstens, created to attract farmers to the agricultural ...

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