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| Description: | Pulling tree stumps in northern Wisconsin. A group of curious onlookers watches as workers load large stumps. A sign in the background reads: "Conrath Home... |
| Date: | 09 03 1895 |
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| Description: | Clearing stumps with a stump machine on the farm of Christopher Paustenbach, three miles east of Medford, Taylor County. |
| Date: | 11 12 1906 |
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| Description: | "An annual crop of rocks" at the George A. Nelson Farm. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Man and woman using a double-handled saw to clear trees from their land. |
| Date: | 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Stump-studded field with farm buildings in the background. |
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| Description: | Three men working with a two-horse team on a hill turning a winch to extract stumps, probably a Svenson Grubber sold by J.H. Carnahan. |
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| Description: | Locomotive with coal car and one passenger car passing through rural landscape. People wave from a log cabin and a horse-drawn vehicle in the background an... |
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| Description: | A man wearing a tie stands next to an industrial trailer used for clearing of land. The side of the trailer reads "BROS" and there are other vehicles in th... |
| Date: | 02 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a terraced farm field belonging to M.L. Jackson. Multiple tree stumps are scattered throughout the foreground and farm buildings are in th... |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 07 31 1895 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 09 08 1914 |
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| Description: | Five men in hats and jackets, some holding the levers on a gang plow pulled by a Rumley tractor, pose for a group portrait. One man in work clothes stands ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of a drainage ditch in Horicon Marsh. A man is on a path along the left of the ditch. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Group of well-dressed men standing in front of a plowed segment of Horicon Marsh. |
| Date: | 10 1914 |
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| Description: | View of furrowed ground in Horicon Marsh and men on a tractor in the process of plowing a drained portion of the marsh. |
| Date: | 08 08 1927 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road towards an automobile coming up the hill. Trees have recently been cleared from the side of the road, and tree-covered hills are in the... |
| Date: | 08 08 1927 |
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| Description: | View down steep hillside, a section of which appears to be recently cleared. Two men are standing near a horse, halfway down the hill in the cleared area. ... |
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