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| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Korean farmer hauling wood for fuel on his back with an "A-frame." Original caption reads: "One ocean away, one century behind, the Korean farmer saddles h... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk couple and their dog outside of their winter home (ciiporoke). A Hudson Bay blanket is hanging over the door opening. The long tree branches lea... |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk man and woman posing standing in front of a Ho-Chunk winter lodge. The man is reportedly blind. In the background there is a horse and snow on t... |
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| Description: | View down hill of a teacher standing in an open doorway, with students standing and sitting on the wooden landing of a clapboard one-room school building. ... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | A group of three men crowd around a campfire before much of the festival audience arrives. A large pile of firewood is on the left next to them. In the bac... |
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| Description: | A teacher and students are posing on the landing of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. On the right is a stack of firewood, and a hill rises steeply in the ... |
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| Description: | Two unidentified men and a young girl posing outside what is possibly a one-room schoolhouse. |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, also known as milk buggies, dropping off cans of milk at the country cheese factory during summer. |
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| Description: | Neighbors work together in the final process of sawing firewood, as they saw poles into blocks. The man with the plaid shirt and suspenders is the owner of... |
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| Description: | On the right, the farmer in his sheepskin coat drives a horse-drawn sled loaded with milk cans to the cheese factory. A blanket is covering the cans to pre... |
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| Description: | Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man standing in the cook house doorway at a convict camp comprised of several tents and a iron cage on wheels. |
| Date: | 04 1957 |
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| Description: | LuRay Arms and Otis Arms tending a fire while making maple syrup outdoors. |
| Date: | 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Three men from the Arms family making maple syrup outdoors. From left to right are: Lewis, Bernard, and Otis Arms. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman, possibly Anna Neary, gathering pieces of chopped wood in her arms as she kneels near a wood pile on the A.E. Bancroft farm. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | View of a maple syrup shack on the side of a hill. Smoke is billowing out of the doorway, which is blocked by a wheel barrel full of wood. Two men are in t... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | The back porch and the nearby wood pile, on the John Esch farm. There are two men, two women and a dog on the porch. |
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| Description: | View across fields and fences of three wooden buildings in the country, probably a mill. A man stands in the wagon drawn by a team of horses in front of on... |
| 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... |
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