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Poster

Promotional Circular of Young Woman Picking Cherries

Date: 1925
Description: Promotional circular announcing the 1926 calendar for McCormick-Deering farm machinery. The calendar features a young woman looking coyly over her shoulder...
Photograph

Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
Book or Pamphlet

Low 20th Century Manure Spreaders Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester Low 20th Century manure spreaders. Features an illustration of trees with a stone wall around a...
Print

International 8-16 Nostalgia Print

Date: 
Description: Color illustration of an International 8-16 tractor pulling a wagon full of stones for men building a stone fence. The print was part of a series of nostal...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Manager's Home on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: A man mows the front lawn of a manager's home on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The house belonged to "Mr. Heath."
Photograph

Alligator Attack

Date: 1903
Description: Humorous posed photograph of a woman in a wagon being attacked by an alligator. The alligator is stuffed and propped against the side of the wagon. The wom...
Photograph

The Glen Farm

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Description: Farm buildings standing near the fields at Glen Farm in Dorset Hollow.
Photograph

Bodden Barn

Date: 2004
Description: Todd and Mary Alice Bodden, Matthew (14) and Thomas (10), live at N8202 Hwy 175 (Section 23). This barn has been in the Bodden family since 1851.
Photograph

Bodden Silo

Date: 2004
Description: The Todd Bodden family poses by this wonderful, old silo, which was built in 1910. One can only imagine how many field stones were used in the 12-inch thic...
Photograph

Giese Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: This barn, at W2208 Hwy AY (Section 31), stands isolated in a field between the farms of brothers Lloyd and Loren Giese. Lloyd Giese and his son, Andy, are...
Photograph

Taliesin I Entry Loggia and Plantings in the Courtyard

Date: 1912
Description: Taliesin I entry loggia and plants viewed from the courtyard. A small portion of the trellis is at the left from which gourds are hanging.
Photograph

Taliesin II Gardens and Pasture Below Building

Date: 
Description: Gardens and pasture below the southeast side of Taliesin II.
Photograph

Taliesin I Garden and Pasture

Date: 1912
Description: Pasture, vegetable gardens, and trees on the southeast side of Taliesin I.
Photograph

Taliesin I Gardens

Date: 1912
Description: Gardens on the southeast side of Taliesin I. In addition to the vegetables there are foundations in the background supposedly to have been the bases for c...
Photograph

Taliesin I from the South

Date: 1912
Description: View of Taliesin I from the South.
Photograph

Taliesin I Entry Loggia and Plantings in the Courtyard

Date: 1912
Description: Taliesin I entry loggia and plants viewed from the courtyard. A small portion of the trellis is at the left from which gourds are hanging.
Photograph

Gonstead Residence

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: View through the living room's south wall window of the flagstone terrace, swimming pool, and bathhouse of the S.C. Gonstead residence in Mt. Horeb. Madiso...
Photograph

Man Posing on Horse-Drawn Mower near Stone Structure with Arches

Date: 1900
Description: A man is posing on a horse-drawn mower in front of a two level stone structure with many arches.
Photograph

Statue of Nathan Hale

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Description: Statue of Nathan Hale (1755-1776), a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Base of the statue reads, "I only regret that ...

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