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Open Hearth Lead Furnace

Date: 1872
Description: Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men...
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Pit at Lead Mine

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Description: Pit at Hazel Green lead mine.
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Woman and Lambs

Date: 1911
Description: Winter scene with woman tending lambs in a snow-covered farmyard with log buildings in the background.
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Elevated View of Town

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the town.
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Elevated View of Town

Date: 1899
Description: View of Bloomington, with a man in the foreground looking over the vista.
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Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
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Nelson Dewey State Park

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Description: Elevated view from bluff of a house in Cassville surrounded by bluffs, trees and farmland. Railroad tracks run between the crops and the trees, and the Mis...
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Cassville from the Park

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Description: Caption reads: "View from the park". View down dirt road, with a large deciduous tree on the left side of the road, and a cornfield on the right. In the di...
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Threshing Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View across field of threshing scene, with steam-powered threshing machine and horse-drawn wagons. A large group of workers pose with men in suits. On the ...
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Family and Wagon

Date: 1900
Description: A family of seven, including a baby, posing on and around a wagon with bales of hay in rocky terrain. There are steep hills behind them.
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Six-Roll Husker-Shredder

Date: 12 29 1929
Description: Two men work on the Will Rasque farm using a horse-drawn wagon and a six-roll husker-shredder.
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Husker Shredder and Farmall Regular Tractor

Date: 12 29 1928
Description: Farmers use a 6-roll husker shredder and a Farmall Regular tractor outside a barn on the farm of Will Rasque.
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Nelson Dewey Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Nelson Dewey farm, showing the house built on the site after Dewey's death. The original house built by Dewey burned in 1873.
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Nelson Dewey Barn

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior of barn built by Nelson Dewey at Cassville, seen in about 1905 when the property was owned by T.J. Bunn. The building is now the State Farm Museu...
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South Lancaster Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: This store, which was originally built in 1840 (and rebuilt after an 1877 fire) was bought in 1891, by Samuel Kerr who continued to sell sugar, flour, mola...
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Cow Pasture

Date: 05 30 1966
Description: View from hill of cows grazing below in a pasture, as seen through a cluster of trees in bud.
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Platteville School District #10 Rural School

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Description: Small rural clapboard schoolhouse with class posing at entrance. There is a dog sitting on the right side of the building, and cows are in a field in the b...
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Boys Corn Club Contest

Date: 05 1911
Description: Jeffie Duncan, winner of first prize in corn contest, and calf, Lawn Mower, stand before tent exhibiting the Boys Corn Club Contest.
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Korn Kids

Date: 01 1914
Description: Class of Boys who attended a 10-Day Course at the college of Agriculture, Madison. The course began on January 26th, 1914 with an opening speech by Profess...
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Corn Contest Prize Winners

Date: 05 1911
Description: Six young men, winners of the Wisconsin No. 7 corn contest, pose in front of tent. From left to right: Ray Peterson, Everett Palmer, Earl Ward, Herbert Ec...

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