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Planting Trout

Date: 04 26 1936
Description: Planting trout in Waupaca County. Left to right on bank: S.A. LaVoilette, Joe Samz, Lloyd Pinkawski, Edwin Kargewski, W.M. Geiger, G. Moder, Billy LaVoilet...
Poster

Lily Cream Separators Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Lily brand cream separators featuring a color illustration of a woman operating a hand crank cream separator. Below is a scene of co...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Photograph

Boys Fishing near John P. Linde's Farm

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Description: Boys fish in a stream, with cattle, horses, a farmhouse and a barn in the background.
Poster

Bluebell Cream Harvester Calendar

Date: 1913
Description: Calendar advertising International Harvester's Bluebell brand Cream Harvester (more commonly called a cream separator). Features a large illustration of tw...
Photograph

Three Men and a Dog Crossing a Stream

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Description: Three men with firearms cross a stream with a dog following.
Photograph

Group of Bathers

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Elevated view of a large group of people bathing in Rowan creek near York Farm during the Sound Storm music festival.
Photograph

Horse and Wagon Crossing Stream

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Description: A man is standing on a horse-pulled wagon crossing a stream in Sweetwater, Tennessee, founded in 1875.
Photograph

Stock Raising in the State of Washington

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Description: Cattle drinking water. Trees and hills surround the area. A farmhand (cowboy) sits on his horse, looking at the camera. Caption reads: "Stock Raising in th...
Photograph

Cattle Wandering in the Stream

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Description: A cowhand poses for the camera while the cattle drink at a stream. Trees and shrubs are on the hills surrounding the stream. Caption reads: "Stock Raising...
Photograph

Cowboys and Cowgirls on Horses

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of men and women on horseback in a strem. On the shoreline at the right is a horse-drawn carriage . Trees are further down the shoreline, and...
Painting

Haying Time

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Description: A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July.
Painting

Threshing

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Description: A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Map or Atlas

Recreational Map of Glacier National Park, Montana: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

Date: 1930
Description: The back of the pictorial map titled Recreational Map of Glacier National Park, Montana: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. 14 panels of text and photo...
Photograph

Man and Dog

Date: 1923
Description: A well-dressed man poses holding a German short-haired pointer on a leash near the outlet of the Fish Creek into the harbor.
Photograph

Bridge Crossing

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Description: Dr. W.T. Rinehart, a prominent Ashland physician and surgeon, with Mrs. Rinehart and a sister, in an automobile crossing a small log bridge, probably over ...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of Buckeye harvesting machinery catalog, featuring a group of men and horses resting under the shade of a tree. In the background is a field wi...
Print

Deere & Co. Advertising Card

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Description: Advertising card for Deere & Co. "Largest Plow Manfactory, in the World." Features an illustration of a stalk of wheat on the left, partially framing a sce...
Photograph

Reconstruction after the 1911 Flood

Date: 1911
Description: View towards men standing among several large rocks, and a road made with logs. Identified as the lying of logs on the sand bar after the flood of Black Ri...

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