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Farm Boys Playing Basketball

Date: 1929
Description: Boys practicing for winter basketball games on the farm of Marcus Johnson.
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Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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Westport School

Date: 1929
Description: The Westport School attended by Ella Wheeler. It is now used as a tool shed. A large barn is behind the smaller building.
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Oak Hill Farm

Date: 1929
Description: Exterior of Oak Hill farm, home of H.H. Harris, one of the pioneers of the strawberry growing and shipping industry in Wisconsin.
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Farmall Regular and Lime Spreader

Date: 1929
Description: Man pulling a McCormick-Deering lime spreader with a Farmall Regular tractor. A barn and silo are in the background.
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Two Farmers with Blower

Date: 1929
Description: Two farmers use a blower or silo filler(?) on the Zyder and Anderson farm. One man is working in the back of a horse-drawn wagon.
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Men with Scythes in "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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University of Wisconsin

Date: 1929
Description: View from the tower of the Congregational Church towards Lake Mendota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Picnic Point is in the center backgro...
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Depot and Yards

Date: 1929
Description: View down railroad tracks looking towards the Bagley train station. On the right is a large storage tank. A man is driving a car near the railroad tracks n...
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McCormick-Deering 10-20 Tractor

Date: 1929
Description: The back of a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor with an unidentified harvesting implement attached to the back. A farm building is in the background. A handw...
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Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1929
Description: Elevated view of town looking down a hill. In the foreground is a river with trees along the bank. On the other side of the river is a factory with industr...
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Railroad Bridge Across Pecatonica River

Date: 1929
Description: View down the railroad tracks across the bridge. On the far side are barns and industrial buildings among trees.
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Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1929
Description: Oscar Steinkopf feeding the chickens on his 40-acre farm near Luck. Feeding the chickens was traditionally considered women's work and perhaps Steinkopf wa...
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Hart-Parr Tractors Advertisement

Date: 1929
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising Hart-Parr tractors featuring text set against a farm scene background. The text reads: "Hart-Parr Tractors. Most Power....
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Men Loading Cows into International Truck

Date: 1929
Description: A man stands in the bed of a truck while loading cows. One cow is already in the truck bed, and two other cows are moving up the ramp. Two young children w...

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