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Filter: Creator Name of Van Schaick, Charles
Filter: Subject of land use, rural
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry... |
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| Description: | Horse and buggy of a man from town meets the road cart/sulky of the farmer. People are standing in a field in the background. |
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| Description: | Graveyard with buildings in the background. |
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| Description: | A barn with three open doors. Through the main door to the barn, hay is visible. |
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| Description: | A farmer is carrying buckets, presumably to feed his hogs that are following him in the pen. |
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| Description: | Probably a first plowing of land after the trees and stumps have been removed by grubbing. Many roots still remain, and the "breaking plow" turns a wide fu... |
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| Description: | A man stands with a team of horses ready to plow a field. |
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| Description: | A man uses a hand cultivator in a field of what could possibly be onions. |
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| Description: | Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row. |
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| Description: | Two teams of horses pull two self-binders through a field. The self-binder came into use after the reaper, both of which were superceded by the combine. |
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| Description: | Three men operate a stump extractor in a field. The piece of machinery was probably a Svenson Grubber sold by J. H. Carnahan. |
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| Description: | A group of men and women stand in a field with a stump extracting rig. |
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| Description: | Three men working with a two-horse team on a hill turning a winch to extract stumps, probably a Svenson Grubber sold by J.H. Carnahan. |
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| Description: | A girl stands with two horses turning a winch, probably a Svenson Grubber sold by J. H. Carnahan. |
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| Description: | Five men and four girls stand, while one girl poses on a winch turned by a team of two horses. The winch is probably a Svenson Grubber sold by J. H. Carnah... |
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| Description: | Teams of men and horses work in a field. Two smokestacks and additional agricultural machinery are visible in the background. |
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| Description: | A group of men use steam machinery to clear a field or saw lumber. In the foreground, men stand on a horse-drawn wagon and sled. |
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