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Photograph

Field Preparation for Cranberry Marsh

Date: 08 08 1922
Description: A man is sitting on the back of a Kissel truck using machinery to dredge a field. The field was being cleared in order to prepare it for use as a cranberry...
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Baldwin & Killen Lands and W.H. Killen & Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of Baldwin & Killen Lands and W.H. Killen & Company, dealers of farm, lumber, and mineral lands, from Appleton, Wisconsin, with an image on the ...
Photograph

Clearing Hardwood Forest

Date: 08 02 1895
Description: A hardwood forest ten miles southwest of Florence, containing hard maple, birch, elm, oak, hemlock, and other types of timber. Two men are leaning against ...
Photograph

Onion Fields of John Hass

Date: 07 31 1895
Description: Chas B. Howe standing in his garden, holding cabbages, beets, onions, and turnips. The garden is located on the farm of John Hass, with 1.5 acres of onions...
Photograph

Pine Forest Harvesting

Date: 09 06 1895
Description: View of a partially harvested pine forest nine miles southwest of Washburn. A pathway is being cut for a narrow gauge logging railroad.
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Print

Pulling Stumps with Cletrac Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: A man uses a Cletrac crawler tractor to clear land on a farm. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Pulling stumps and clearing land are important job...
Photograph

Draining Horicon Marsh

Date: 1914
Description: View of a drainage ditch in Horicon Marsh. A man is on a path along the left of the ditch.
Photograph

Plowing on Horicon Marsh

Date: 10 1914
Description: View of furrowed ground in Horicon Marsh and men on a tractor in the process of plowing a drained portion of the marsh.
Photograph

IH TD-15 Series B Tractor Crawler Clearing Trees

Date: 1969
Description: This photograph was likely taken by the International Harvester Overseas Division for promotional purposes, and shows a man driving an International Harves...
Photograph

Pulled Stump

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Description: Outdoor view of a man on top of a pulled stump, and another two men and horses in the distance.
Photograph

Clearing Land

Date: 1920
Description: Four Native American men posing while clearing land for farming. One man is standing atop a stump which has been pulled from the ground. Another man is hol...
Photograph

Man Using Tractor to Pull Stumps

Date: 06 12 1925
Description: Right side profile view of a man using a tractor to pull stumps.
Photograph

Man Using Tractor to Pull Stumps

Date: 06 12 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man using a tractor to pull stumps in a field.
Photograph

Two Men Pulling Stumps with a Tractor

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: One man is standing and watching while a man driving a tractor is pulling a stump from a field. There are farm buildings in the background.
Photograph

Man Driving 10-20 Tractor Pulling Plow in Rough Ground

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man driving a 10-20 tractor pulling a plow in rough ground. A man on the right is helping with a rope being used to ...
Photograph

Two Men Pulling Stumps with a Tractor

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: View from rear of one man standing who is helping a man driving a tractor to pull a stump from a field. Farm buildings are in the far background.
Photograph

Man Clearing Land

Date: 09 14 1925
Description: A man is driving a McCormick-Deering tractor to clear a field near a forest.
Photograph

Stump Fence

Date: 1930
Description: A field is demarcated by tree stumps piled in a wide row. Beyond the piled stumps is a field with stumps still in the ground. There is a farm building on t...

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