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Farm of Alex Smith

Date: 1875
Description: View from a distance of a farm in a valley owned by Alex(ander?) Smith. There is a wooden fence in the foreground surrounding the farm.
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McCord Rock, Devil's Rock, Donald's Rock, Preacher's Cap

Date: 1876
Description: View of a farmstead with fences, haystacks and a wooden outbuilding. Two men are posing on top of McCord Rock, one of them saluting with his hat. Another ...
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Gray's Mill School, Disrtict 17

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Description: Small white clapboard schoolhouse in South Lancaster Township, with class standing outside in front. There is a barn on a hill in the background.
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Platteville School District #10 Rural School

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Description: Small rural clapboard schoolhouse with class posing at entrance. There is a dog sitting on the right side of the building, and cows are in a field in the b...
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Beetown School District #7

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Description: A man stands behind a fence and in front of a clapboard schoolhouse and outhouse on a hill. There is a bell tower on the school building.
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Field and Farm in Valley

Date: 1900
Description: View across a field of horse-drawn grain binder with a farm in the middle distance. Men are standing in the barnyard, and a woman is standing on the lawn n...
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Overhead View of International Auto Wagon on Scenic Road

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of a man driving three women in an International Auto Wagon(?) along a scenic unpaved road overlooking a valley. There is a guard fence on bo...
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Man and Young Boy Driving on Dirt Road

Date: 1914
Description: Man and boy (possibly father and son) driving an International Model M truck on a rough dirt road overlooking farmland in a valley.
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Nofsinger Family with Model T Ford

Date: 06 09 1929
Description: The Nofsinger family poses with their automobile, a Model T Ford.
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Christmas 1952

Date: 1952
Description: Holiday card with a scene of a village in New Mexico. Adobe dwellings with hills, fences, a ladder, trees and a burro can be seen in the background. Six fi...
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Men on Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: A line of men and horse-drawn mowers in a field. One man wearing a bow tie is sitting astride a horse and waving his hat at the camera.
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After the Hunt

Date: 1920
Description: Two unidentified young men pose in the snow with their firearms behind seven dead rabbits displayed on a barbed wire fence; there are three dogs on the oth...
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Rock Scenery Near Rockbridge and Hub City

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Description: View across dirt road of two men standing on a tree stump halfway up the side of a rocky bluff. Trees grow along the sides and top of the bluff. In the bac...
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Grading the Road

Date: 1931
Description: Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil...
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IH Passenger Bus at Market in El Salvador

Date: 1970
Description: This photograph was likely taken by the International Harvester Overseas Division for promotional purposes. The original caption to the photograph reads: "...
Postcard

Grand Dad's Bluff

Date: 1914
Description: Hand-colored view of Grand Dad's Bluff. People are standing below the bluff in the foreground. Caption reads: "Grand Dad's Bluff, La Crosse, Wis."
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Leykauf Bluff

Date: 1950
Description: A young girl wearing a winter coat and hat is standing in a tilled field at the base of Cassell, or Leykauf, Bluff. A description on the reverse of the pri...
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Holy Hill

Date: 10 16 1930
Description: A group of men and women on horseback pausing during a fox hunt. They are in traditional fox hunting attire. The Basilica of Holy Hill is in the distance. ...

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