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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
Book or Pamphlet

Saving the World From Starvation Advertisement

Date: 1922
Description: Color advertising flyer entitled "Saving the World From Starvation." Features an illustration of a man in a suit and hat and a farmer looking at McCormick-...
Photograph

Milking on the Greene Farm

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Description: Barn interior on the Greene Farm with cows in stalls, with one man milking a cow, and another man standing and holding a bucket and milking stool.
Photograph

Rolla B. Shurfelt Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Barnyard scene on the Rollo Shurfelt farm with people milking the cows. Several horses are in the yard as well.
Photograph

Farmall M Tractor with Plow

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Description: Left side view of a farmer on a McCormick Farmall M tractor with plow in a field. Cows are grazing in the background.
Photograph

Plowing with McCormick WD-6 Tractor

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer plowing a field with a McCormick WD-6 tractor as dairy cows are grazing in the background.
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Cows Near Gates Ravine

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Description: Cows near Gates Ravine (Glen Eyrie). There is a bridge over a river in the background.
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Father and Sons Loading Cattle onto Truck

Date: 07 18 1928
Description: View across barnyard towards a father guiding a cow up a ramp into the back of an International truck as two young boys look on at W.H. Bitner's Elm Crest ...
Photograph

Man and Girl Milking Cow Outdoors

Date: 05 1924
Description: A man and a little girl milking a cow with a pail at Cutten Farms. A note with the original print reads: "Tuberculosis Must Go (Cover)." This was the title...
Photograph

Calves in Pasture

Date: 08 1929
Description: Young dairy cows feeding in a clover pasture with farm buildings in the background.
Photograph

Farm near Columbus

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Wisconsin Conference of Seventh Day Adventists farm with cows and buildings including farmhouse, barn, three silos and a corn crib on Duborg Road off of Hi...
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Farm near Columbus

Date: 04 27 1945
Description: Wisconsin Conference of Seventh Day Adventists farm on Duborg Road off of Highway 16 west of Columbus, Wisconsin. A farmer is holding two horses next to a ...
Photograph

Farm near Columbus

Date: 04 27 1945
Description: Wisconsin Conference of Seventh Day Adventists farm buildings including barns, three silos and a corn crib on Duborg Road off of Highway 16 west of Columbu...
Photograph

4-H Milking Champion

Date: 11 18 1931
Description: Marian Dolan, 1931 National 4-H milking champion, milking a cow. She is a member of the Maple Knoll 4-H Club north of Sun Prairie.
Book or Pamphlet

Dairymaid Cream Harvester Catalog

Date: 1910
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Dairymaid line of cream separators. The cover features an illustration of two cows, a d...
Book or Pamphlet

Primrose Cream Separators Catalog Cover

Date: 1916
Description: Front cover of advertising catalog for the Primrose line of IHC cream separators. Cover features chromolithograph of cows at a drinking trough. In the uppe...
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Ensilage Cutter Catalog

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for IHC ensilage cutters showing a farm with cows in the foreground and the farm buildings in the background.
Photograph

Milking the Cows

Date: 
Description: Two men are sitting on stools milking cows in a barnyard within a log fence enclosure. Milking was usually done outside during the 19th century so in this ...
Photograph

Man with Calf and Cow

Date: 
Description: A man stands on a road in front of a wire fence and field, and holds the end of a rope tied around the neck of a calf.
Book or Pamphlet

Land of Plenty

Date: 1950
Description: Cover a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. The cover includes an illustration of a farm with cows in the fore...

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