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Peshtigo Fire

Date: 11 25 1871
Description: Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak...
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Nativity Scene

Date: 1981
Description: Holiday card with the Christ child in a manger surrounded by four praying children, each of a different race, Native American, African American, Caucasian ...
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Joyeux Noel!

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a soldier walking while carrying a child who is waving an American flag. The soldier is wearing a uniform and a campaign hat. Two childre...
Photograph

Churning Butter

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Description: Woman using a dasher churn to make butter. She is seated on the stoop of a house and a young girl watches behind her.
Photograph

People Posing in front of Frame House

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Description: Two women are posing sitting, and three women, five men, and two young boys are posing standing on and near the porch of a small frame house. On the right ...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Farm Tractors

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Eagle farm tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a tractor to plow a field in front of a farmhouse.
Postcard

Feeding the Chicken and Geese

Date: 1900
Description: An unidentified woman standing near a shed is feeding chickens and geese in the barnyard.
Drawing

Farm Scene

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Description: Pen and ink drawing farm scene of a man digging in a small, fenced-in plot of bare earth land. The scene includes two cows, two birds, a haystack, windmill...
Photograph

Geese in Garden

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Description: Flock of geese in a garden. Haystacks are in the background. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Commencement of Spring Work

Date: 01 1884
Description: Illustration of a man attaching a plow to a horse team. A boy is adjusting the bridle for one of the horses, and a dog sitting in the foreground is looking...

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