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Book or Pamphlet

Corn King Manure Spreader Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Corn King line of manure spreaders. Features a color illustration of a farmer in a field with...
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering and Company Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi...
Photograph

Woman On Avery Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Woman holding flowers posing on the back of an Avery gasoline tractor.
Photograph

Peony Farm

Date: 06 1950
Description: Three well-dressed women are walking past a peony farm.
Photograph

Reunion of Company K, 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 08 28 1913
Description: Group portrait of a reunion of Company K, 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, on the Trautwein farm. The company on this occasion were the guests of Mr. And ...
Photograph

Model Dairy Farm

Date: 
Description: A model dairy farm maintained by Hoard's "Dairyman Magazine" for experimental purposes. Two women are walking in the driveway near the buildings on the rig...
Photograph

Children Playing with Chicken

Date: 05 1924
Description: Two children playing with a chicken on a lawn near some flowers. Original caption reads: "Holden Poultry Farm, Mr. Snyder's children playing with chicken."
Photograph

Bonack Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: Leo and Helen Bonack, at W2472 Hwy TW (Section 6), have lived here for 38 years. Cows were last milked in 1960.
Photograph

Milbrot Barn — Exterior, View of Short Side

Date: 2004
Description: William Milbrot's parents have lived here since 1953.
Photograph

Marilyn Zingsheim Posing in front of the Jaster Barn — Alternate View

Date: 2004
Description: Marilyn Zingsheim's grandparents, Albert and Mary Meyer, and later her parents, Clarence and Gladys Krapfl, lived here.
Print

Valentine Greetings

Date: 
Description: Valentine's Day card featuring a girl wearing a red uniform and a sword, standing on the roof of a fort. A boy in a tan uniform with a sword, is looking at...
Photograph

Grulke Trellis

Date: 2004
Description: Fritz and Sandy Grulke have a nice trellis at the entrance to their garden.
Photograph

Fink Lawn Centerpiece

Date: 2004
Description: Having encountered some huge stones in their fields, Richard and Dorothy decided to make some into a centerpiece on their lawn. Richard estimates the top s...
Photograph

Giese Combination Smokehouse and Milkhouse

Date: 2004
Description: This combination smokehouse and milkhouse are still standing on the Giese property.
Photograph

Garden and Farm Buildings

Date: 
Description: View from garden towards two women posing standing near the fence for a garden. Behind them, three men are displaying four horses. Another person in the ba...
Drawing

Hay Into the Barn

Date: 1945
Description: A man stands on top of a full hay wagon parked in front of the closed door of a red barn. Above the man a grappling hook full of hay can be seen through th...
Photograph

Russell Gottschall

Date: 1932
Description: Russell Gottschall, 13, holds a puppy as he poses in front of a border of roses, lilacs and peonies which he planted near the road at his home, Woodlawn Fa...
Photograph

Elevated View of the Mississippi River

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of the Mississippi River from a bluff. There is a farm and other houses along the shoreline, and in the foreground a boy stands on the bluff ...
Book or Pamphlet

Threshing Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Cover of Aultman & Co's Annual Catalogue of threshing machinery. Features two putti pulling aside a curtain to reveal a landscape scene of farmers working ...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Banner Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Top of cover reads: "Directions for Setting Up and Operating the Buckeye Banner Binder." Features an illustration of a man and woman discussing the set up ...

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