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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads." |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Amund Rustebakke, standing in doorway, and Siri Rustebakke, center, sitting, in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning w... |
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| Description: | A girl sits in a rocking chair as a young woman commands a dog who is dressed in dark clothing to sit. A piano or organ is in the background. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Young girl feeding a calf from a bucket while standing in a field. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Florentina Krueger feeding chickens in the yard. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Floyd French of Newton, Iowa feeds two orphaned lambs using beer or soda bottles. A Farmall tractor is in the background. According to the original ca... |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground. |
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| Description: | H. Sveren farm with the family standing in the foreground and a dog, farm buildings and fences in the background. A line of trees is behind the farmhouse o... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Benjamin F. Hahn, his wife Mary and their servant Sarah Hill sit around a table with an intricately patterned cloth with bowls of apples and grapes. The wo... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Ladies sit on the front porch of a long two-story house. One woman is next to a baby carriage. On the porch's roof is a man with a ladder painting the hous... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | This is the second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie parsonage. Four men in the foreground pose with rakes and tools. One man sights along a shotgun. Oth... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is posing at the side of a house. A man and boy are holding rifles, and a dog is lying on the ground between the. There is a baby sitting in a hig... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Family around table in yard. Four women, three men, and four children. The woman at far left is knitting, and on the far right is a dog. In the background ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Twenty-eight people and one dog are posed in the yard of a wood frame house. A lap dog is sitting on a chair balanced on top of a fence post. A woman at th... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Family posed in yard around a table set for coffee. Behind is a large frame house with stone foundation, latticework at bottom of front porch, and lightnin... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne agricultural machinery showing a woman and two young girls mixing ingredients for a recipe from an Osborne cata... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Six year-old Zula Belle Walker of McDonald Chapel, Jefferson County, feeding her mongrel flock of poultry. |
| Date: | 02 1914 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a bonnet and apron kneeling in a field to milk a cow. |
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