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| Date: | 09 04 1895 |
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| Description: | Julius Koehler family in their garden in front of their newly built frame home. The original Koehler farm was destroyed by forest fire in July of 1894, evi... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
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| Description: | A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Color lithographed color advertising poster showing a McCormick grain binder at the Civil War battle of Gettysburg. The poster was based on a cyclorama by ... |
| Date: | 09 18 1923 |
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| Description: | Harvester-Thresher (combine) on a hill in a field drawn by a team of eleven horses. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | International "Red Baby" (model S) truck loaded with binder twine(?) and a stationary engine leaving a rural farmstead. In the background a woman holding a... |
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| Description: | Woman sitting on a Farmall B tractor with attached corn planter talking with International Harvester dealers Henry Brosnahan, Manager (left), and Jack Call... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Farmer operating an International Harvester corn planter with fertilizer attachment drawn by two horses or donkeys. The photograph was taken for, or compil... |
| Date: | 11 08 1928 |
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| Description: | Stretch of paved rural highway featuring a proprietary centerline joint, looking towards Mount Horeb from the east. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View down road of mass-produced residential housing with farm in background. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin threshing crew, with steam operated tractor, in Buffalo county. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View, from a distance, of New Glarus. A hill, trees and fences are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of a rocky pasture with some small, distant farm buildings, and a few farm animals grazing. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of grazing cattle, and pigs, in a field, with a farmhouse in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Cochrane and the surrounding landscape. There are houses, railroad tracks, distant fields, a pond and some irrigation canals. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View from hill of uptown Cross Plains with the Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) and farmhouses. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the new Madison television facility, WISC-TV (Channel 3), showing the transmitting tower in construction. The location is to the southwest,... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View across fields towards the Genoa Dam on the Mississippi River. Tree-covered hills are on the left. |
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