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Woman Cleaning Wooden Floor

Date: 1920
Description: Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush.
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Woman Draws Water from Well

Date: 1920
Description: Farm woman operating a McCormick-Deering portable gasoline engine. The engine is driving a pump to draw water from a well into a homemade trough. Another w...
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Carcajou Farm and Grazing Cattle

Date: 1920
Description: View of grazing cattle, and pigs, in a field, with a farmhouse in the background.
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Hoard's Dairy Farm

Date: 1920
Description: View across field toward Hoard's dairy farm with silos, barns, and trees.
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Farmhouse

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of farmhouse and other outbuildings.
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Farmhouse

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of farmhouse.
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Holsmiller Farm

Date: 1920
Description: The Spensley Furnace on the Holsmiller farm.
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Taycheedah, Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: A view of Taycheedah, Wisconsin.
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Heg Farm

Date: 1920
Description: Heg Farm. The home was built by the Hegs after their immigration from Lier, Norway in 1840 and before the Civil War. The barn was built by Even H. Heg in 1...
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Dane County Farm

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of house with porch and yard on highway 113. Snow is on the ground.
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Hill Farm House

Date: 1920
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison farmhouse on Middleton Road.
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Hill Farm House

Date: 1920
Description: View of side of farmhouse on Middleton Road which is part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Thomas and Florence Quinney's Farmhouse

Date: 1920
Description: Thomas (Tom) and Florence Quinney standing in front of their farmhouse which has a climbing vine growing on it.
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Autumn Farm Scene

Date: 1920
Description: A small farmhouse in the Greek Revival style stands near a field with corn shocks and pumpkins. Large evergreens line the lane, and a barn is in the backgr...
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Men with Lime Pulverizer

Date: 1920
Description: A man is feeding limestone into a "Jeffrey lime pulver" powered by an International tractor. A pile of rocks is in the foreground, and a farmhouse and anot...
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Farmstead

Date: 1920
Description: View of a barn, farmhouse, outbuilding and tractor on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
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Sanitary Garbage Pail

Date: 1920
Description: A metal sanitary garbage pail attaches underneath the kitchen sink and pipes at the farmhouse of Miss Lella Gaddis.
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Woman with Dumbwaiter

Date: 1920
Description: Mrs. John Bowers removing a plate of food from the dumbwaiter in her Benton County farmhouse.
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Woman Hauling Water

Date: 1920
Description: A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house.
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Laundry Line

Date: 1920
Description: Clothing hanging on a clothesline strung between a farmhouse and two small farm buildings. Corn and other crops are planted around the farmhouse.

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