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Sheep Shearing

Date: 08 1948
Description: Two men sheering sheep on a stage surrounded by a crowd of fair-goers, possibly in a competition at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition.
Photograph

Youth Display Sheep

Date: 08 1948
Description: Elevated view of a number of young boys, and one girl, each crouched next to a sheep, displaying it to the crowd gathered around a pen at the Wisconsin Cen...
Photograph

Watt Children in Field with Lamb

Date: 1900
Description: Glendora and Russell Watt, the children of Ephraim and Adelaide Watt are standing with a lamb in an open field. Glendora is holding a bottle for feeding th...
Photograph

Flock of Shropshire Sheep

Date: 1895
Description: A flock of purebred Shropshire ewes standing near a fence on the farm of Geo. Martin. In the background is a farmhouse with laundry on the line, a farm bui...
Photograph

Adams County Fair

Date: 1990
Description: A male teen is posing with a prize sheep at the Adams County Fair.
Photograph

Horses and Sheep

Date: 
Description: Elevated view over sheep pen towards men displaying several horses in a yard among farm buildings, a frame house and a windmill. Three women and two young ...
Photograph

Boy with Sheep

Date: 1932
Description: Gilbert Harvey, wearing a cap and bib overalls, standing in an open pasture with the sheep he raised as a 4-H project.
Photograph

Earl Woodbury

Date: 1933
Description: Earl Woodbury, age 14, a student at Cloverland School, poses with a sheep on his home farm. The sheep has been recently shorn. There is another sheep and a...
Postcard

Group of People Posed at Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view of a family posed on a hill in front of a farm, with farmhouse, outbuildings, and a windmill. The family is gathered on a hill i...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 124-131

Date: 
Description: Sunday was the day when, to a stranger,
almost nothing happened. But to us
it was the best day of all
Photograph

Warren Potter

Date: 1932
Description: Warren Potter, holding a bucket, poses with his sheep and lambs. There is a road in the background and a farmstead on the other side of the road.
Photograph

Sheep Market

Date: 05 1929
Description: View of a sheep market at Canrobert, Algeria. A crowd of Algerians and small herds of sheep gatherd in an open area. Buildings are on the right and back wi...
Photograph

Sheep and Cattle and Farmers

Date: 
Description: View from field towards group of people, men and women, posing with sheep and cattle in a pen next to a barn. There are haystacks in the background on the ...
Photograph

Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition

Date: 10 18 1960
Description: Portrait of David Harmann (left) of Mukwonago with his grand champion lamb, and Beverly Finder of Stoughton with her reserve grand champion lamb at the Sou...
Print

R.M.S. Queen Mary Luncheon Menu

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Front cover and menu page from the luncheon menu for the Cunard White Star ship R.M.S. Queen Mary, with figurines of a white lamb and a shepherd and...
Magazine or Periodical

Loading Sheep into Model AL-162 Cattle Truck

Date: 
Description: A Model AL-162 cattle truck being loaded with sheep. Three men are seen. One in the back of the truck, another on horseback, and the third standing at the ...
Photograph

Family Group on Porch

Date: 
Description: Two men and a young boy sit on the edge of the porch. The man on the left is wearing a suit and hat, the boy and the other man are wearing work clothes and...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 42

Date: 
Description: That morning is adrift in passing;
it cannot last the day.
Those years are anchored to each other;
there is no other way.
Photograph

Man on a Horse

Date: 
Description: View of a man posing sitting on a horse in a field. In the background is a sheep, and in the distance a fence and what may be a farm building.
Photograph

Man with a Flock of Sheep

Date: 
Description: Outdoor view of a man posing standing in front of wooden buildings and a flock of sheep.

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