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Main Street and Two Gas Stations

Date: 1926
Description: Main Street, with two competing curb-side gas stations across the street from each other. Cars are parked along both sides of the muddy street. Such curb-...
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Men in Sorghum Field

Date: 09 09 1895
Description: Two men with scythes stand in front of a sorghum patch planted on May 20th, 1895. The view was taken near Osceola.
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Helene Stratman-Thomas and Two Women

Date: 08 10 1946
Description: A group portrait of three women. (l to r) Song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas, Mrs. Kamma Grumstrup, a singer of old ballads in Danish, and possibly Beri...
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Battling Grasshoppers

Date: 07 1938
Description: Loading a truck with bait at the county mixing station at Balsam Lake during the grasshopper outbreak in northwestern Wisconsin.
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Children Swinging

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Description: Children playing on swing set in front of an automobile. A man is seated on a picnic table nearby.
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Grain Stacks

Date: 09 09 1895
Description: View across field of two men leaning against an enormous stack of grain on the farm of August Schmidt. There are many more stacks of grain leading into the...
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Ripe Pumpkin Field

Date: 09 27 1895
Description: In the cornfield of Jas. E. Seed, a number of large, yellow "Yankee" pumpkins ripen on vines. A man is crouched in the field, holding a pumpkin in his arms...
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Beehive Farm

Date: 1895
Description: A man stands with fifty beehives on the farm of Bernhard Volkering in East Farmington. Trees and farm buildings surround the hives.

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