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Reaping Scene

Date: 1879
Description: Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings...
Photograph

CUNA Office in Cottage Grove Coop

Date: 02 05 1941
Description: Claire Onsgard, treasurer of the Dane County Farmers Equity Union Coop Credit Union in Cottage Grove showing member Fritz Swenson where to sign his loan ap...
Photograph

Man and Boy in G. Larsen's Barnyard

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Description: A man and a boy are in the barnyard of the G. Larsen farm with cows and dogs. A haystack with a temporary roof and a drive-through corn crib are evident.
Photograph

Man, Dog and Chickens

Date: 03 03 1947
Description: Irvin Thompson with Andy, a chicken retrieving dog, placing an escaped chicken into a crate at the Southern Wisconsin Produce Company, 633 West Doty Street...
Poster

Neil Young Promotional Poster

Date: 07 1972
Description: Poster created by Madison-based Johnathan Chritton, most likely to commemorate the release of the album "Harvest" (1972), featuring Neil Young playing an a...
Photograph

Madison Field Trials for Dogs

Date: 03 07 1954
Description: Two trainers posing outdoors with their dogs after taking part in the Madison field trials. A record number of 80 dogs were entered. Winners in the four ca...
Photograph

Dr. Eloise Gerry

Date: 08 03 1956
Description: Dr. Eloise Gerry poses with "Black Mint of the Congo," a Basenji or barkless dog of Africa. Dr. Gerry, retired from the United States Forest Products Labor...
Postcard

Group of People Posed at Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view of a family posed on a hill in front of a farm, with farmhouse, outbuildings, and a windmill. The family is gathered on a hill i...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 42

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Description: That morning is adrift in passing;
it cannot last the day.
Those years are anchored to each other;
there is no other way.
Photograph

Salvation Army Harvest Festival

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Description: Interior view, over the heads of an audience sitting in the foreground, of a room filled with vegetable produce. A man, and a woman holding a puppy, are st...
Photograph

Six Young Farmers

Date: 01 28 1958
Description: A young man wearing a wool coat is carrying two pails across a snow-covered farm yard. In the background a dog is running to keep up, and icicles are hangi...
Photograph

Dane County Sheriff Department Dog Training

Date: 01 25 1960
Description: An unidentified Dane County Sheriff Department employee training a police dog. The man and the dog are in a field, and a storage tank is near buildings in ...
Postcard

"Hammer the Hun" Parade

Date: 1917
Description: A children's parade is marching down a street. In front are several boys dressed in overalls and carrying pitchforks and other farm implements. Behind them...

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