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Hickory Tree

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Description: Shagbark hickory tree in a field.
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Family Group in Front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1890
Description: Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos...
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Monthly Market Fair

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of farmer's wagons, teams, and pedestrian traffic crowd Princeton's main street for the monthly market fair. Some snow is on the ground and a...
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Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
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Prize-Winning Cabbage

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca...
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Men with Plow

Date: 1873
Description: Group portrait of men gathered in a farmyard, posed behind two plows. The plow in front has Argyle, Wisc. from Michalson Implement Company inscribed on the...
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Milk Strike

Date: 01 10 1934
Description: Milk strikers and a pile of empty milk cans next to railroad tracks. Bill Nemeth (left) is pouring out milk in an attempt to create a shortage that would r...
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Round Barn

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Description: Two women on a farmstead pose in front of a round barn. The name Ri Clausing is written on the back of the photograph.
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Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee

Date: 10 14 1912
Description: President Theodore Roosevelt leaving the Chicago and North Western depot after arriving in Milwaukee on his October 14th, 1912 visit, during which he was s...
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Tennis Friends

Date: 1914
Description: Four men and three women posing on Hull's tennis court.
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La Pointe from Big Bay Road

Date: 1910
Description: View of La Pointe taken from Big Bay Road on Madeline Island.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Funeral Procession

Date: 1959
Description: Panoramic view of the funeral procession of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with Taliesin seen in the center background. Following the farm wagon hearse are ...
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Refrigeration Building and Barn

Date: 11 01 1937
Description: New refrigeration building and barn at the State Experimental Game and Fur Farm.
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State Experimental Game & Fur Farm

Date: 11 01 1937
Description: View from the road of the State Experimental Game and Fur Farm.
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Raccoon Cages, Poynette Game Farm

Date: 11 01 1937
Description: Raccoon cages at the State Experimental Game and Fur Farm.
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Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two men are posing on a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor.
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Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two men operating a Nichols & Shephard combine tresher and Hart Parr tractor.
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Drainage Districts Booth

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: Drainage Districts of Central Wisconsin booth at Wisconsin State Fair with crops on display, and photographs around the booth above vegetables on display o...
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Truck Garden

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Six men with hoes in a truck garden at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Hwy 113.
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John Steuart Curry Residence

Date: 1945
Description: The John Steuart Curry Residence, Seminole Highway.

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