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Cows in a Pasture

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Description: View over fence of Guernseys cows grazing in a pasture near New Glarus. In the background is a farmhouse, windmill on a hill, barns and other outbuildings.
Photograph

Violet Jacobson

Date: 1932
Description: Violet Jacobson, a student at Mud Branch School, District No. 2, poses on her family's farm with several calves. There is a barn and two other outbuildings...
Postcard

Baptist Church

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Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the Baptist Church with a bell tower above the entrance. There is a group of children gathered on the front s...
Print

Menu for the Annual Winter Meeting, Wisconsin Guernsey Breeders' Association

Date: 02 03 1931
Description: Front cover and menu listing from the Annual Winter Meeting of the Wisconsin Guernsey Breeders' Association at the Loraine Hotel. On the cover is a profile...
Postcard

Busy Road near Blanchardville

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Description: Elevated photographic postcard view of a busy road near Blanchardville. Men are driving a wagon hitched to eight horses, and people are standing in the roa...
Photograph

Tom Simoc

Date: 1931
Description: Tom Simoc, 14, poses with a Guernsey cow near a log barn. On the reverse of the photograph is written, "Won prizes at Co. Fair, 1930." Tom was the son of N...
Painting

Sunrise on Lake Monona

Date: 1884
Description: Sunrise over Lake Monona and the Madison, Wisconsin isthmus, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the distance.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 623-632

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Description: In God we Trust assorted needs

The complex amplitudes and waste
are never balanced, only tasted
Photograph

Prize Winning Calf

Date: 1932
Description: William Wehring, a student at the Sharon School, poses with his Holstein calf. There is a large canvas tent in the background and a railroad car is behind ...
Photograph

Roger Baird

Date: 1933
Description: Roger Baird, 11 years old and a student at Hillcrest School, District No., Towns of Waukesha, Pewaukee, Brookfield and New Berlin, posing with his calf. On...
Print

Ninth International Congress Banquet Menu

Date: 09 1887
Description: Interior menu pages of the Ninth International Medical Congress, with a woman in a head wrap and skirt decorated with stars pouring liquid from a jug into ...
Photograph

Children Visit the Farm

Date: 04 1987
Description: City children visit the O'Connor farm for a hands-on experience.
Photograph

Stephen Babcock Milking a Cow

Date: 05 1928
Description: Stephen Moulton Babcock seated on a small stool and milking a cow as another man holds a harness around the cow's head. They are in a University of Wiscons...
Drawing

Widmer's Cheese Cartoon

Date: 1991
Description: An original cartoon given to Ralph Widmer by the famous cartoonist, Walt Wetterberg, whose cartoon, "Ada The Aryshire," appears regularly in the "Farm Jour...
Print

Eugene's Menu

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Description: Front cover and back insert page from Eugene's restaurant in the Juneau Hotel, with an orange lobster holding a blue card in its tail with images of a stee...
Photograph

Cows on Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
Photograph

Cows On Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
Photograph

Cows On Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
Photograph

Cows on Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
Photograph

Farmhands and Cattle in a Farmyard

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Description: Group portrait over fence of two men, a woman, and a boy posing in a farmyard with cattle and a team of oxen. In the background are farm buildings and a ph...

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