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Deering Trade Card: "On a Strike"

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising card produced by William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features an illustration of a woman spanking a young boy...
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Bakke House on Odana Road

Date: 02 24 1949
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Westye F. (Mary) Bakke seated before the fireplace in the living room of the Bakke house at 4818 Odana Road (now 4817 Sherwood Road) with ...
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Lifke Barn

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Description: Arnold and Bernice Lifke were married 59 years ago, when Arnie returned from serving in the Marine Corp in the SW Pacific. They have lived on the farm most...
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Merry Christmas From All of Us

Date: 1936
Description: Holiday card for the Bancroft Dairy Company in Madison, Wisconsin. The card is folded so that as you open each panel, you see a new scene. Many different e...
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Neverland, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Date: 1965
Description: Holiday card with a drawing of a vacation home on the front, and a picture of the family in front of their Volkswagen bus on the inside. The family has a C...
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Nellie Arms and Her Cat

Date: 10 24 1954
Description: Nellie Arms, aunt of Lewis Arms, holds a cat outdoors at the farm she shared with her husband Bernard.
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Justman Silo and Farm Buildings

Date: 2004
Description: Ronald E. and Alice Justman, and son, Jeff, were photographed at N9341 Hwy 175 (Section 3).
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Justman Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: The Justmans purchased the farm in 1976. They last milked cows in January 1998. They farm previously was in the possession of Ron's parents, Marvin and Van...
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Couple Outside Hugh Duncan House

Date: 1941
Description: A man, holding a cat, is sitting next to a woman outside of a house which has a long row of tall windows. This Keck and Keck design was built for Hugh Dunc...
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Group of People Posing in front of House

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Description: Two men, six women, and a young girl are posing standing in the yard in front of a single-story frame house. There is also a man and woman sitting in a bug...
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Rescued Calico Cat

Date: 04 28 1959
Description: Mrs. Mary Myre is sitting next to her Cocker Spaniel dog while holding a calico cat she rescued from a tree.
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Group Sitting on a Couch

Date: 1961
Description: Elna Krueger is squeezed between two other couples on a couch. A cat sits in the lap of the woman on the far left.
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Together on the Couch

Date: 1961
Description: Edgar and Elna Krueger sitting with friends on a couch. A cat sits on the lap of a man in overalls in the center. Edgar sits in overalls next to him with E...
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Cat in Assembly Chambers

Date: 08 02 1961
Description: Two Wisconsin legislators hold a cat found in the Assembly chambers.
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Lady with Cats

Date: 10 26 1961
Description: Rachel Salisbury of Milton Junction, a retired college English and Education teacher, sitting with two of her Persian cats with a large awards ribbon in th...
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W.A. Holt Reading Aloud Outside to the Holt Children and Others

Date: 08 10 1913
Description: It is a Wednesday in the middle of August. Standing in the woods on the Island, W.A. Holt is reading aloud, possibly scripture or a children's sermon. A gr...
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In the Barn

Date: 1910
Description: Eight young men and women posing in a barn. They include Will von der Sump, far left, and his brother Fred, second from right. A dog in front of Fred moved...
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Women on Ladder

Date: 1910
Description: Ethel Wallace is sitting on a wooden box in front of five other women who are sitting on the rungs of a ladder propped on the side of a house. A dog is sit...
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Group at Fence

Date: 05 14 1904
Description: A group of five women and two men are posing behind a wire fence and shrub. They are, from left, Mae, Will and Hattie von der Sump; Mrs. Salisbury; a woman...

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