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Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onion Mound

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani...
Photograph

Man on Manure Spreader Pulling Out of Barn

Date: 1910
Description: Farmer on a horse-drawn manure spreader pulling out of barn. Another farm building is on the left. A small girl, possibly a daughter, is peering out from b...
Photograph

Sleigh Ride in Outagamie County

Date: 1953
Description: Winter scene with a farmer driving a team of horses pulling a large wooden sled on a snow-covered road. Standing to his side, from left to right, is Marge ...
Photograph

Hillsborough Brewery and Brickyard

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Description: View looking down hill towards the buildings that make up the brickyard. Along the road between the brickyard and the brewery are a few men sitting in wago...
Photograph

Farm of Chris Klein near Phillips, Price County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card created to attract farmers to the agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. The card features an ima...
Photograph

People and a Buggy in Front of a House

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Description: A man, woman, and two children are posing sitting in a buggy pulled by a team of two horses. A man is standing near the corner of the two-story frame house...
Photograph

People in front of Farm

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Description: View across road towards a group of people posing in front of a farm. On the left a man and woman are each sitting on separate horses, and in the center an...
Photograph

Group of People in the Yard in Front of House

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Description: In the foreground a man and woman are posing sitting. They are each holding a young child. Behind them posing standing are two women, two men, and a boy. T...
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People Posing in front of Frame House

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Description: Group posing in front of house. On the right, a man is standing with a white horse, and behind him is a carriage. Two women are sitting in rocking chairs, ...
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People Posing in Front of Log House

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Description: Group portrait of people sitting in a row, with a man and woman in the center, and two young girls flanking them. Behind them standing, on the left, is a y...
Photograph

Sunday Afternoon Drive

Date: 06 1899
Description: Horse-drawn wagons are lined up in front of an old barn on a Sunday afternoon drive. The wagons carry Mr. and Mrs. August Krueger, and the August Hable fam...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

Date: 
Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile

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