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Woman Nursing Lambs with Bottles

Date: 1946
Description: Mrs. Floyd French of Newton, Iowa feeds two orphaned lambs using beer or soda bottles. A Farmall tractor is in the background. According to the original ca...
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Alice in Dairyland with Sheep

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Description: Alice in Dairyland interacts with sheep in a pen at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Sheep at the Wisconsin State Fair

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Description: Men preparing their sheep for judging at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Shearing Sheep at Seger Colony, School

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Description: Three men shear sheep at the Seger Colony School as one looks on.
Drawing

East Side Residence of A.A. Arnold

Date: 1877
Description: View of cattle, sheep, and pigs in a pasture on a farm. Two houses are in the distance, and a horse-drawn carriage is moving along the road on the left. Ca...
Photograph

Sheep Shearing Contest

Date: 1951
Description: Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition.
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Sheep Barn

Date: 1930
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture. The building was called Kleinheinz barn when used as a dormitory. Used for sheep from 1898-1934. ...
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Men with Livestock

Date: 1914
Description: Group of men in a pen with livestock, including pigs, sheep, a cow, a donkey and horses. The livestock was owned by the Piney Woods Country Life School.
Photograph

Sheep Shearing

Date: 08 1948
Description: Two men sheering sheep on a stage surrounded by a crowd of fair-goers, possibly in a competition at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition.
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Youth Display Sheep

Date: 08 1948
Description: Elevated view of a number of young boys, and one girl, each crouched next to a sheep, displaying it to the crowd gathered around a pen at the Wisconsin Cen...
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Boy with Sheep

Date: 1932
Description: Gilbert Harvey, wearing a cap and bib overalls, standing in an open pasture with the sheep he raised as a 4-H project.
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Earl Woodbury

Date: 1933
Description: Earl Woodbury, age 14, a student at Cloverland School, poses with a sheep on his home farm. The sheep has been recently shorn. There is another sheep and a...
Postcard

Group of People Posed at Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view of a family posed on a hill in front of a farm, with farmhouse, outbuildings, and a windmill. The family is gathered on a hill i...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 124-131

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Description: Sunday was the day when, to a stranger,
almost nothing happened. But to us
it was the best day of all
Photograph

Warren Potter

Date: 1932
Description: Warren Potter, holding a bucket, poses with his sheep and lambs. There is a road in the background and a farmstead on the other side of the road.
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Sheep Market

Date: 05 1929
Description: View of a sheep market at Canrobert, Algeria. A crowd of Algerians and small herds of sheep gatherd in an open area. Buildings are on the right and back wi...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Shropshire Lambs

Date: 06 30 1892
Description: Flock of Shropshire sheep at the University of Wisconsin Station Farm.
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"Blockade" Publicity Still

Date: 1937
Description: Luis (Leo Carillo) sitting underneath a tree playing an instrument. He is surrounded by sheep in the film "Blockade." Mountains are in the background.
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Sheep

Date: 1935
Description: A flock of sheep walking along the bank of a small winding river. There are trees in the background. A typewritten note on the reverse states: "A scene in ...
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Soldiers Waiting at the Train Station in Ruma

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are standing around at the train station in Ruma, Syrmien. A man is standing in the center with a sheep, presumably about to be slaughter...

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