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Halvor Nerison Hauge and Other Farmers

Date: 1874
Description: Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) had much to be proud of in 1874: an imposing brick house, modern harvesting equipment and a growing family. When Dahl publ...
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Lombardy Poplars

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Description: A rural lane lined with Lombardy poplars runs between two fenced fields. Two men are standing in the lane looking towards the camera. A church and many oth...
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Jones House

Date: 1938
Description: The Jones house was built in 1867 by William L. Jones who moved to Wisconsin from New York. The carpenter for the home was Mr. William Seeley, a Yankee.
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Everetta Bass with Girl in Baby Carriage

Date: 1890
Description: Everetta Bass, the photographer's daughter, standing next to a younger girl, identified as Verta, sitting in a baby carriage.
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Family in Front Yard

Date: 1900
Description: The Bass farmhouse, originally owned by the photographer's father, Isaac Bass. Pictured are the photographer's mother, Lorinda Bass, brother Frank Bass hol...
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J.F. Mosher Residence

Date: 1886
Description: Mosher family standing in front of the J.F. Mosher residence. From the left are J.F. Mosher, daughters Celia Belle, Rhoda Adelaide, and Bertha May, son Her...
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Landscape from the Top of Gibraltar Rock

Date: 1909
Description: The view from Gibraltar Rock across farm fields and woods. There are corn shocks in several of the fields. A farm house and outbuildings stand near a pond...
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Sauk County Fair

Date: 1906
Description: A double exposure of a landscape featuring a very large tree and farm houses superimposed on an image of buildings and crowds at the Sauk County Fairground...
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Stone Barn Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: The Stone Barn Tavern, located about three miles west of Milton. The three cottonwood trees in front of the tavern were brought from Vermont. There are sev...
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Autumn Farm Scene

Date: 1920
Description: A small farmhouse in the Greek Revival style stands near a field with corn shocks and pumpkins. Large evergreens line the lane, and a barn is in the backgr...
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Elevated View of Belleville

Date: 1916
Description: Bird's-eye view of town. Fields, with farms and fences, surround the town made up of numerous dwellings and a church.
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Orchard in Winter

Date: 02 1924
Description: Elevated view of fruit trees, farm buildings, houses, and a windmill with pump house.
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Mrs. Ch. Harris

Date: 1925
Description: A woman stands at the gate beside a wood frame house, possibly at Newport. The downspout on the house drains into a rain barrel. There are outbuildings beh...
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Farmstead

Date: 1912
Description: View down dirt road leading to the Carlson farm at Nelson Bay in Peninsula State Park. A man stands in the background among the farm buildings near a parke...
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Door County Farmstead

Date: 1920
Description: A car is parked along a narrow dirt road with a house, barn and outbuildings in the background. A split-rail fence lines the left side of the road. There i...
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Orchard in Bloom

Date: 1922
Description: View from hill of cherry trees in bloom in the Gibraltar Orchard on Sturgeon Bay Road (Highway 42.)
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Maple Tree

Date: 1982
Description: A large soft maple tree stands beside a small house with plastic sheeting on the porch screens. There is a barn with a silo in the background, and snow on ...
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Dodge County Farm

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view from hill of chickens ranging near their coop behind a farmhouse and outbuildings on a tidy farm. There is a large barn on the right with two...
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Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cheney

Date: 1910
Description: James Cheney and his wife Mary posing outdoors near the side of a house which has a porch. There is a fence and granary in the background, and a tree limb ...
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Flouring Mill of John Ochsner

Date: 1877
Description: A page from an illustrated historical atlas showing four residences, a hotel and the flouring mill of John Ochsner.

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