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Prize-Winning Cabbage

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca...
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Horse-Drawn Patent Medicines Wagon

Date: 01 07 1937
Description: A traveling salesman with Willson's Monarch Labs is standing beside the horse-drawn wagon that took him on sales routes in rural Wisconsin. Willson manufac...
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Woman at Traveling Photographer's Wagon

Date: 1890
Description: A woman, possibly the daughter of C.R. Monroe, holding up an image of Black River Falls Main Street at the back of a traveling photographer's wagon.
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Walter in Carriage

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Description: Walter in carriage wearing hat, with blanket covering.
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Walter in Carriage

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Description: Walter in carriage wearing hat, with blanket covering.
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Albert Schwark

Date: 1913
Description: Albert Schwark posing in front of a horse-drawn carriage.
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Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Horse-Drawn Wagon

Date: 09 05 1944
Description: Milkman from Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy posed next to horse-drawn delivery wagon, number 5, and the horse. This photograph documented a story about the end o...
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Boy with Delivery Wagon

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Description: Boy posing standing next to a delivery wagon pulled by a single horse. Marked on side "Tel. 76" and a box of "Saxon Oats" in the wagon.
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Couple in Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A man and woman sitting in a wagon led by a horse. A field and a house are in the background.
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Men in Woods

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Description: Two men sitting in front of an open-sided wooden shelter. One man is sitting on a barrel on a sled, and the other man is sitting on a log. The sled and hor...
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Young Woman in Clearing

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Description: A portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and dress, and holding a bouquet of flowers, standing in a clearing. In the background is the darkroom horse-draw...
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Two Women in a Horse-Drawn Buggy

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Description: A portrait of two women sitting in a horse-drawn buggy stopped in front of a wooden fence and a log house. Photographer's shawdow is in foreground.
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Portrait of George Standingwater

Date: 1906
Description: A Ho-Chunk man is posing standing in a field, holding an object in his left hand, and is wearing regalia including a long bandoleer which appear to have be...
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Christian Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: Dale Christian lives at W1728 Racoon Rd (Section 29). This farm has been in the Christian family since 1848.
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Christian Carriage

Date: 2004
Description: Dale Christian rides this fine, old carriage to the "River Church" when a special German service is held.
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Man with Horse and Buggy

Date: 1900
Description: Man standing in front of barbed wire fence with an orchard behind him. He is holding a branch of leaves and what appears to be fruit. The horse and the bug...
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Stallion at Jackson County Fairgrounds

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Description: Man displaying a stallion near a wooden fence and in front of several buggies and a boy standing on the left, probably at the Jackson County Fairgrounds. I...
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Reklau Wedding Anniversary

Date: 04 04 1993
Description: "John and Lydia Reklau celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary at the Lomira Legion Hall."
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Man and Woman in a Buggy

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Description: View down unpaved First Street towards a man and woman posing sitting in a buggy, pulled by a single horse wearing a fly-net. Behind them is an arch over t...
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Winter Hearse

Date: 1918
Description: Outdoor portrait in front of a building of two men standing in the snow with a decoratively carved winter hearse complete with curtains. The driver and the...

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