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Farmer Stacking Hay in Barn

Date: 07 14 1926
Description: Farmer loading hay from a wagon into a large barn using a winch. There are other farm buildings, a water tower, and a farmhouse in the background.
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N. Lunde Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View framed by trees of a barnyard at the N. Lunde farm. Cattle and three men are standing in an enclosed yard in front of a barn with a cupola. One of the...
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Gothic Revival Farm House

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Description: A Gothic Revival farmhouse with barge board trim behind a fence. Adjacent to the house are farm buildings, one which has a windmill mounted upon it. Men on...
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Family by Farmhouse and Barn

Date: 1874
Description: A family stands in the yard of a large frame bracket style house that has carpenter's lace, trim above windows, shutters, latticework at porch and a stone ...
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Family posed around Table in Yard

Date: 1871
Description: A large family group is gathered around a table for coffee. The women are holding bunches of flowers, and behind them is a large bracket style house with a...
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Couple in Carriage by Home

Date: 1869
Description: Seven people are grouped around an impressive two-story home with a fan window at the attic gable and a porch with carpenters lace and latticework. A horse...
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Couple with Young Children

Date: 1870
Description: A man is standing on the far left with a baby in a baby buggy, a boy on the far right is sitting on a rocking horse on the lawn, and a woman holding baby i...
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Family Standing on Porch

Date: 1870
Description: A family stands on the porch of small frame house with wing additions. A well is on the far left, and farm buildings are in the background.
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Woman holds Baby by House

Date: 1875
Description: Family in yard, with a woman holding a baby. There is a girl with an apron-type dress with frame house behind that has nicely cut woodwork on porch. There ...
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Adults and Children outside Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: Three men and two women in front yard, with frame house and two children standing on porch behind. The house has a stone foundation and small second story ...
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Family sitting outside of Frame House

Date: 1873
Description: An upright and wing frame house with three doorways on porch, shuttered windows, and a stone foundation.
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Family by Frame House

Date: 1876
Description: Four people stand in the yard of a frame house which has a porch with pediment, and a flanking lean-to addition. A stove pipe is sticking out of the lean-t...
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Senator R.E. Davis's Residence

Date: 1872
Description: View from across the road of a picket fence, a garden with an arched trellis and a couple on the porch of a frame house. The house has wood trim on the por...
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Gullik K. Springen Family

Date: 1874
Description: Twenty-one members of the Gullik K. Springen family, and one dog, in a farmyard with carriage, two-story stone house, wood barn and stone barn in the backg...
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People in Carriage near Fence

Date: 1869
Description: People in carriage in front of picket fence, wagons and people behind; large frame house with parapet roof, Corinthian porch columns, brackets at roof; car...
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Hill Farm House

Date: 1920
Description: View of side of farmhouse on Middleton Road which is part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Gov. Nelson Dewey Estate — Stonefield

Date: 08 04 1949
Description: Exterior view of an outbuilding used as an ice house and wine cellar at Governor Nelson Dewey's estate, called Stonefield.
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Dutch Farmhouse

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: View across field towards a Dutch farmhouse. A dog is sitting in the foreground, and chickens are running near a building, and a woman is standing under a ...
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Abandoned Farm with Overgrown Yard

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: An abandoned farm with overgrown foliage. In the background is a farmhouse. The doorway is detailed with decorative pilasters or engaged columns flanking t...
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Farmhouse's Planting and Fence

Date: 1924
Description: View from a rural road to a farmhouse demonstrating its landscaping and what the original caption describes as a "novel fence." The large barn in the backg...

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