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B.F. Hahn and Family Picnic

Date: 1876
Description: Benjamin F. Hahn, his wife Mary and their servant Sarah Hill sit around a table with an intricately patterned cloth with bowls of apples and grapes. The wo...
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Family at end of Path

Date: 1872
Description: A family is sitting at the end of a tree-lined path on a hill leading up to a frame house with a porch. A boy is sitting on the porch roof, which is flat. ...
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Large Tomato Plant

Date: 08 30 1949
Description: Earl L. Vanderhoef Sr., 312 N. Blair Street, standing on the ground near a ladder and showing his tomato plant, which grew to a height of 14 feet. He was c...
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Bentert Farm

Date: 05 1900
Description: View of the farm buildings of Mrs. H. Bentert. A dog is sitting in a field in the foreground, and three people are standing near the house.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 55-61

Date: 
Description: Way back in the soft center of hard times
did not their resistance to change in the sentiment
make some sense

What could take the place of the...
Photograph

Beekeeper Weighing Small Hive on Birdhouse

Date: 09 18 1981
Description: A beekeeper, wearing a bee suit, including gloves, and a hat with a veil, is crouching down and weighing a beehive that is attached to a birdhouse.
Photograph

Beehives in Open-Sided Shed

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Description: Stereograph of beehives housed in a raised open-sided shed with decorative finials at each end of the roof, scroll-style roof ridge molding, and a painted ...
Book or Pamphlet

C. Aultman & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1883
Description: C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover and back cover. On the front is a shock of wheat, a bird and a butterfly, and on the bottom a farm landscape. On the back co...
Photograph

August Krueger with the Cows

Date: 1903
Description: August Krueger standing in the cow pasture behind the barn, tending to the cattle during winter. He is holding a pitchfork, with several cows standing behi...
Photograph

Krueger Family Farm

Date: 1908
Description: View across field from the south east of the Krueger farm, which includes farm buildings, fences, a farmhouse and a windmill.
Photograph

Driftless Farmyard

Date: 05 2014
Description: View up sloping edge of a farmyard. In the foreground is an open gate, a birdhouse on a post, and rock outcroppings. Along the fence in the background are ...
Photograph

Chief Shabbona Forest Preserve

Date: 11 28 2014
Description: A wooden sign sitting in a snow-covered field which reads: "Chief Shabbona Forest Preserve." It includes two images of trees, and on the bottom right is th...
Photograph

The Judkins Family

Date: 1930
Description: Cora Judkins, kneeling, posing with her four daughters sitting in front of her. They are, from left, Bonnie, Leonore Judkins Middleton, Juanita and Blanche...
Photograph

Mowing the Lawn

Date: 1930
Description: Juanita Judkins pushing a "Run Easy" reel lawn mower. She is wearing heavy fabric coveralls with wide legs which end at mid-calf, exposing silk stockings. ...
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Buck Sitting in Tall Grass

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Description: A buck is sitting in tall grass on the Aqualand Campgrounds. A doe is sitting in the grass in the background on the left. There is a building among trees o...

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