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Gridley Dairy Milk Wagon

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Description: A man holding a bottle of milk is standing and posing next to a horse-drawn Gridley Dairy milk wagon. Two other men are standing on the left near a brick b...
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Stock Fair

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of the monthly Stock Fair. The roof of a building is in the left foreground. Horse-drawn wagons line the street, and there is a large buildin...
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Farmer Filling Manure Spreader

Date: 02 09 1911
Description: Farmer shoveling manure into the box of a horse-drawn International New Low manure spreader in a farm yard.
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Horse-Drawn Cart Crosses Bridge

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of bridge crossing the wide Fox River, with the paper mill on the far side of the river, and a horse-drawn cart approaching the near side.
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Green Bay Depot

Date: 1901
Description: View down platform towards a locomotive pulling a Green Bay & Western Railroad train at the Green Bay depot, with a Snavely omnibus parked at the platform ...
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"McCormick Day" at Fountain City

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of people, horses, and wagons gathered in the center of Fountain City to celebrate McCormick Day. Scherer's Hotel is at left. The event was o...
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Brenum Farmstead

Date: 09 19 1876
Description: Brenum farmstead with cattle horses and agricultural equipment in view.
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Cutting Grain

Date: 1875
Description: Two women and six men are cutting grain or hay using hand tools and horse-drawn implements. Behind them is a frame house.
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Family by Horse and Carriage

Date: 1873
Description: A family of four stands in the distance next to a horse and carriage. Behind them is a barn with cupola and weather vane and a white frame house.
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One View of Village of Mount Vernon

Date: 1876
Description: "One view of the village of Mount Vernon, Wis." a stereograph listed in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views."
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Bridge, Dam and Mill in Moscow

Date: 1875
Description: View of a bridge, dam and mill. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound branch of the Pecatonica River to run ...
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Main Street in Mt. Horeb

Date: 1871
Description: The main street of Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin.
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Rock Quarry near Argyle

Date: 1876
Description: Probably one of the "Three different views of the village of Argyle, Wis." mentioned in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Eleven men and boys ...
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Farm Workers in Field

Date: 1876
Description: Probably one of the "Three different views of the village of Argyle, Wis." mentioned in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." In the foreground is...
Postcard

Hoo Hoo Club Hotel

Date: 04 24 1910
Description: The Hoo Hoo Club Hotel, a lumbermen's social organization. Two men are standing near a man driving a sled carrying milk cans pulled by two horses in front ...
Photograph

California House

Date: 1870
Description: View of the California house next to a store with a sign that reads: "M. Silber & Bro.," and a "Boot & Shoe Store." A bakery is on the left, and a group of...
Photograph

Family and Wagon

Date: 1900
Description: A family of seven, including a baby, posing on and around a wagon with bales of hay in rocky terrain. There are steep hills behind them.
Painting

Camp Randall, from the N. E.

Date: 1862
Description: Photograph of a watercolor of a view of Camp Randall, from the northeast. Scene set on rolling hills, shows tents, buildings, horses and military members i...
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Percheron

Date: 1900
Description: A farmer shows off his percheron colt at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the turn of the century when a farmer's livelihood was dependent on his horses, the d...
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Oklahoma Cattle

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Description: Elevated view of several cowboys on horseback on a range. A large number of cattle can be seen nearby. Caption reads: "A Cattle Scene Near Tulsa."

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