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Group Portrait of Mother and Children in front of Sod Farmhouse

Date: 1905
Description: View of farm woman and her two children posing in front of sod farmhouse on poor plot of land. The woman is sitting in a chair near the open front door. A ...
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Horse-Drawn Reaper near Windmill

Date: 1905
Description: Man and a boy working with a horse-drawn reaper in a field. The reaper is likely a model or replica of the McCormick reaper of 1831. A windmill is in the b...
Postcard

Clear Lake Main Street

Date: 1905
Description: West side of Main Street, with "The One Price Store" in the right foreground, and other commercial buildings further down the street. There are large utili...
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Threshing Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View across field of threshing scene, with steam-powered threshing machine and horse-drawn wagons. A large group of workers pose with men in suits. On the ...
Postcard

Jefferson County Court House

Date: 1905
Description: View towards the court house. Snow is on the ground, and a windmill is on the right. Caption reads: "Jefferson County Court House, Jefferson, Wis."
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Horse-Drawn Reaper with Windmill

Date: 1905
Description: Two men, two women and a boy harvesting grain with an early McCormick reaper. A windmill is in the background. The photograph may have been a staged re-ena...
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Horse-Drawn Reaper with Windmill

Date: 1905
Description: Two men, two women and a boy harvesting grain with an early McCormick reaper. A windmill is in the background. The photograph may have been a staged re-ena...
Postcard

Views of Brandon, Wisconsin

Date: 1905
Description: Photographic postcard of a collage of 5 views of Brandon including; Washington St., Public Square, Times Office, High School, and Depot & Park.
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University Heights

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of University Heights taken from the third floor of a home at 216 Campbell Street. Several residences can be seen in the view, including Prof...
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216 Campbell Street

Date: 1905
Description: View of the house at 216 Campbell Street. Construction materials are piled about the property, suggesting it was recently built. A small group of people ar...
Postcard

M.E. Church

Date: 1905
Description: Hand-colored view of the Methodist Episcopal Church on Portland Avenue. Cedar Creek flows behind it. Caption reads: "M.E. Church, Cedarburg, Wis."
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Foundation

Date: 1905
Description: Two men holding trowels are standing on an improvised scaffold made of wooden kegs and planks while working on a cement block foundation wall. Two other me...
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Fernhill Farm

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view from hill of the Frank and Bertha von der Sump farm on Golden Road. There is a modest one-story farmhouse, a barn, windmill, and four other f...
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Steam Tractor and Huller

Date: 1905
Description: A man in bib overalls is standing on the rear of a steam tractor which is hitched to a mechanical huller. Behind the tractor is a wagon full of firewood dr...
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Plowing

Date: 1905
Description: Will von der Sump driving a team of four horses from the seat of what appears to be a single bottom sulky plow. He is in a large field on his family's farm...
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Tom Duffy's House

Date: 1905
Description: A wooden windmill tower dominates the front yard of a small one-story wood frame house. A group of people are posing on the left, including two couples sit...
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Cuff at Hernkind's

Date: 1905
Description: A portable horse-driven sorghum mill, owned by the Cuff family, has been set up at the August Hernkind farm. Two horses are hitched to the tree trunk that ...

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