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Krueger Children Feeding Calves

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger feeding calves through the barn door.
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Twin Calves

Date: 04 1906
Description: Edgar Krueger with twin calves wearing small ox collar.
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Boy & Girl at Vilas Zoo

Date: 09 09 1940
Description: Boy and girl at the Henry Vilas Zoo, looking at elephant cage, and donkey cage while getting a drink from the fountain. Taken for Manchesters Department St...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Gold Mine On The Farm

Date: 1911
Description: Photomontage of a giant pig in a pen. A man, standing in the pen, is holding a giant ear of corn for the pig to eat. Numerous ears of oversized corn litter...
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Boy Driving a Goat Cart

Date: 1900
Description: Boy, identified as Joe, driving a goat pulling a cart.
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Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 1918
Description: Two young girls looking at the birdcages at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo).
Postcard

Camel Rides at the Zoo

Date: 1970
Description: Camel rides at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo) for children, given free by Zor Temple Camel Patrol on Sunday afternoons during the summer. A number of...
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Mary Binegar with Poultry Account Book

Date: 1916
Description: Mary Binegar, president of the Kiona-Benton School Poultry Club, holds a poultry account book as she stands outdoors near a haystack and several chickens a...
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Clifford Anderson with Leghorn Chickens

Date: 1915
Description: Clifford Anderson sits in a barnyard among his flock of white Leghorn chickens.
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Children with Prize-Winning Chicks

Date: 05 1925
Description: Two children of Vernon Shurs sit and stand near four poultry houses and multiple prize-winning Rhode Island Red chicks. The girl, squatting and wearing a d...
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Boy with Prize-Winning Rooster

Date: 1920
Description: A boy wearing a straw hat, cuffed overalls, and sneakers sits on a wooden crate while holding a prize-winning rooster. A ribbon rests on the boy's leg read...
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Dangerous Barn Lighting

Date: 06 1927
Description: A boy using a shovel cleans up after a horse in a stable at Rogers farm while an oil lamp hangs from a wire above him.
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Mrs. Gillespie Feeding Chickens

Date: 06 1930
Description: Mrs. Gillespie using a metal bucket to feed a flock of White Leghorn chickens outside a farm building on an International Harvester demonstration farm. A s...
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Children Feeding a Fawn

Date: 08 1948
Description: A young boy and young girl feed a fawn from a nippled bottle at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition.
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Children and Horses with Hay Rake

Date: 1915
Description: One barefoot child is sitting on a hay rake behind two horses. The other child is standing directly behind the hay rake which is in a field.
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Girl Posing on Horse

Date: 1910
Description: Girl wearing a dress posing on a horse in front of a house.
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Bluff at Woodlawn Farm

Date: 1932
Description: View looking up at two boys with two dogs posing atop a bluff at the Charles Gottschall farm.
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Summer Scenes at Madison Parks and Beaches

Date: 08 03 1953
Description: Katherine Bird of Winnetka, Illinois, offering some grass to two deer at the Vilas Park Zoo.

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