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Landscape, Milk Room, Water Tower, and Garage at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: Landscape and construction of the milk room, water tower, and garage at Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the west. Ladders are propped agains...
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Hillside Home School

Date: 1911
Description: Southern elevation of Hillside Home School, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his aunts, Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones. Taliesin is located in the vicinity o...
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Line of Prairie du Sac Power Dam Looking West

Date: 1911
Description: Frozen Wisconsin River from the east bank looking west, marked to show the future location of the power dam. Logs and stumps indicate prior clearing of th...
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Main Office and Cement House at Power Dam

Date: 1911
Description: Newly constructed office building at construction site, with buggy in attached shed.
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Erecting Pile Driver for Railroad Extension to Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon...
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Pile Driver and Cenrifugal Pump at Prairie du Sac Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Steam-powered pile driver and centrifugal pump (in shed) at work at the Wisconsin River dam site. Men and children are watching the work.
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Kitchen and Dining Rooms at Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Newly construced kitchen and dining rooms at the construction camp for the dam on the Wisconsin River. The kitchen building has three ventilators on the ro...
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Pathfinder on Rural Road

Date: 1911
Description: The Milwaukee Journal car on the side of the road in the countryside. Two women are sitting in the car, and two men are sitting on the side and front of th...
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"The Undertaker, The Banker and The Doctor"

Date: 1911
Description: A portrait of Frank King's neighbors posed around a bench outdoors on Flora Dell Lake. From left to right, an unidentified man is described as an undertake...
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Man and Boy on Manure Spreader in Field

Date: 1911
Description: Man and boy (possibly father and son) on farmland near a cornfield operating a horse-drawn No. 3 Clover Leaf manure spreader. A barn is in the background.
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Two Men Loading Manure Spreader

Date: 1911
Description: Panoramic view of two men loading a horse-drawn manure spreader (possibly a Kemp) in a field.
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Man Operating Manure Spreader on Farmland

Date: 1911
Description: Panoramic view of man operating a horse-drawn manure spreader on farmland close to farmhouse and farm buildings.
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Manure Outside Farm Building

Date: 1911
Description: Pile of manure outside the door of a crudely built farm building.
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Man Shoveling Manure

Date: 1911
Description: Man shoveling manure while standing on a manure spreader or farm wagon.
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Men Loading Hay Into Wagon

Date: 1911
Description: Two men loading hay onto a horse-drawn wagon in a field. A farm dog is standing nearby.
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Man on Horse-Drawn Wagon

Date: 1911
Description: Man driving a horse-drawn wagon through a rural area.
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Titan Type D Tractor and Elevating Road Grader

Date: 1911
Description: Titan type "D" tractor pulls an elevating road grader along a rural road. Alongside on the left a group of men are driving four or five wagons pulled by te...
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Manure Storage

Date: 1911
Description: A pile of manure lying against a weathered wooden barn in front of what appears to be a field of corn.
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Muddy Pathway on Farmland

Date: 1911
Description: View of open gate and a muddy path through farmland along a fence. Corn shocks are in the field on the left.
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Farmer Picking Corn by Hand

Date: 1911
Description: A farmer wearing a straw hat and smoking a pipe examining or picking corn. Behind him is a team of horses pulling a wagon.

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