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Photograph

Hickory Tree

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Description: Shagbark hickory tree in a field.
Painting

Peshtigo Fire

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

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...
Photograph

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...
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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Painting

Conant Farmstead

Date: 1890
Description: Conant Farmstead.
Painting

Boyhood Home of Hamlin Garland

Date: 1937
Description: Boyhood home of Hamlin Garland.
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Photograph

Tennis Friends

Date: 1914
Description: Four men and three women posing on Hull's tennis court.
Photograph

La Pointe from Big Bay Road

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

Map of Rodolf Family Farm

Date: 1833
Description: Township/section map showing Rodolf land and nearby neighbors.
Painting

Rodolf Farm

Date: 1834
Description: View of Rodolf farm.
Photograph

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 ...
Drawing

Arrangement and Planting Design for Sycamore, Illinois

Date: 1915
Description: Drawings and blueprints of the arrangement and planting design of a small town.
Photograph

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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