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Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
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Farm Wife Brings Lunch to Her Husband in the Field

Date: 1970
Description: Ingrid Bengtson bringing lunch to the field to help her husband, Norman, get the planting done faster. They are having lunch on top of the McCormick Intern...
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Cradling Grain in Field

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Description: The photographer posing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Krueger, cradling and raking grain in a field. She is wearing a dress, and a scarf over her head. ...
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The Sowerbys with a Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Chester Sowerby is sitting on a Farmall H tractor while her husband is standing in the field beside her. The original caption reads: "Mrs. Chester Sow...
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Portrait of Blackhawk and Louisa Mike

Date: 1925
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk couple, Blackhawk (KaRaChooSepMeKah), and his wife Louisa Mike (HumpACooWinKah). B...
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Backyard Portrait

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Description: Alice Bedard, Harold Gauer's mother, Vernie Beck (nee Rachowski, first marriage Gauer), and Vernie's siser, Selma Rackowski.
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Silver Wedding of Bradford and Alice Gillett

Date: 1905
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the 25th wedding anniversary of Bradford and Alice Gillett — Sherwin Gillett's uncle and aunt, seated in the center. The other gu...
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Sherwin and Emma Gillett

Date: 1957
Description: Outdoor portrait of Sherwin and Emma Gillett standing in front of the marble railing at the Legion of Honor.
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The Boddens

Date: 08 1987
Description: Ralph and Phyllis Bodden pose on their farm.
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Otto and Mathilda Hammer

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Description: Otto and Mathilda Hammer in their large garden outside their home. Otto Hammer helped build the first sawmill in Hillsburo in 1855.
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Studio Portrait of European American Couple

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Mr. and Mrs John Breirg, posing standing near a prop fence and gate. The man is standing on the left wear...
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Studio Portrait of Unidentified European American Couple

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man and woman posing standing with a prop fence and gate. The woman is wearing a long, plai...
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William and Johanna Husking Corn

Date: 1900
Description: William and Johanna Krueger are sitting in chairs husking corn in a cleared field. A large pile of corn stalks is piled in front of them, with a barrel of ...
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Outdoor Portrait of Alexander and Florentina

Date: 1904
Description: Full-length outdoor portrait of Alexander and Florentina Krueger standing in front of a split-rail fence on Loock's Hill.
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Kruegers and Goetsches

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor group portrait of August and Mary Krueger and William and Bertha (Krueger) Goetsch. The two women are sitting in chairs, while their husbands are s...
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Mr. and Mrs. William Goetsch

Date: 1922
Description: William Goetsch and his wife Bertha Krueger Goetsch standing outdoors between two chairs, each wearing a corsage. Bertha is holding a bouquet of flowers in...
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Outdoor Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. William Goetsch

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor portrait of William Goetsch and his wife, Bertha Krueger Goetsch, sitting in chairs on a lawn. They are each wearing a corsage, and William's hat i...
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William Fiebelkorn and his Wife Fredericke

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Description: Two horse-drawn sleighs are parked in the snow in front of a house. In the first one on the left, William Fiebelkorn Sr. and his wife Fredericke (Krause) s...
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Riding in a Buggy

Date: 06 03 1905
Description: Albert Gennerman and his wife, Amanda, are sitting in a horse-drawn buggy in front of their home. On the front porch, an unidentified man is leaning agains...
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Norwegian Farmers

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Description: A farming couple pose together on the steps of a building with a sod roof in Nordfjord country. In the background is a lake and a mountain on the far shore...

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