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Peshtigo Fire

Date: 11 25 1871
Description: Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak...
Photograph

Hickory Tree

Date: 
Description: Shagbark hickory tree in a field.
Painting

Peshtigo Fire

Date: 
Description: Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire.
Photograph

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) ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Painting

Conant Farmstead

Date: 1890
Description: Conant Farmstead.
Painting

Horlick's Malted Milk Factory

Date: 1914
Description: Horlick's Malted Milk Factory.
Photograph

La Pointe from Big Bay Road

Date: 1910
Description: View of La Pointe taken from Big Bay Road on Madeline Island.
Photograph

State Experimental Game & Fur Farm

Date: 11 01 1937
Description: View from the road of the State Experimental Game and Fur Farm.
Photograph

Raccoon Cages, Poynette Game Farm

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

Pyrofax Plant

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, view looking south west.
Photograph

Silage Cutter

Date: 10 12 1926
Description: Holstein Safety silage cutter at the base of the University of Wisconsin-Madison dairy barn silo.
Photograph

Dairy Barn and Silo

Date: 10 12 1926
Description: University of Wisconsin dairy barn and silo with Holstein Safety silage cutter on the ground in front.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Display Booth at the Fair

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: L.L. Olds Seed Company display booth of flowers and seeds at Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Agricultural Campus

Date: 06 21 1926
Description: View of the University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural campus looking east.
Photograph

Carnation Company Milk Condensery

Date: 07 1949
Description: Aerial view of the Carnation Company milk condensery.
Photograph

Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...
Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...

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