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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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Prisoner Hauling Goods

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of an African American prisoner hauling goods with a horse-drawn wagon. Original caption reads: "Baled alfalfa, bacon, flour and grain which...
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Water Street

Date: 1915
Description: View of Water Street, the winter home of the Ringling Brothers Circus. The whole street was circus property.
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Millpond in Cross Plains

Date: 1915
Description: Millpond with several buildings and horses in the middle ground, and more buildings in the background. Trees are visible throughout. Text at lower left rea...
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Harvesting Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Harvesting scene with groups of men, women, and boys and multiple reapers hitched to oxen. Foothills or mountains are in the background, behind a row of t...
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Feeding Yard at Chestnut Hills Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Men and cattle in the feeding yard near a barn on E.A. O'Neil's Chesnut Hills Farm.
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Horse-Drawn Corn Picker

Date: 1915
Description: Farmers with a horse-drawn corn picker.
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Deering Corn Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Demonstration for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition showing how the labor swing bundle elevator of the Deering corn binder operates.
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Grain Binder on a Hill

Date: 1915
Description: A farmer uses a McCormick grain binder on a hillside with a windmill in the background.
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Man Using Side Delivery Rake

Date: 1915
Description: One man uses a horse-drawn side delivery hay rake, while others load hay into a large wagon.
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Men Harvesting Hay in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Three men using pitchforks to lift hay onto a wagon drawn by two horses.
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Cawker Buliding

Date: 1915
Description: The northeast corner of the Cawker Building at W. Wells Street and N. Plankinton Avenue.
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Tractor Advertising Illustration

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising illustration showing a farmer using a horse and plow in a field while the image of a tractor and the word "kerosene" is floating above in the s...
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Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1915
Description: A farmer (possibly in Russia?) on a horse-drawn mower in a field.
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Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1915
Description: Rear view of a man sits operating a horse-drawn mower in a field.
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Mowing Clover

Date: 1915
Description: A man is using two horses to pull a mower through a field of clover. In the background are hills or mountains.
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Unidentified Street

Date: 1915
Description: A horse and wagon for the Milwaukee Brewery Co. and a car are parked on the road near the curb. The road is lined with residences.
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Out-Freight House No. 7

Date: 1915
Description: Horse-drawn and motor freight vehicles at the Out-Freight House No. 7 of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
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Law Building

Date: 1915
Description: View up Bascom Hill of building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A horse and carriage are in the lower left corner.
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Horse-Drawn Milwaukee Grain Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea...

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