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Milkmaid with Cow

Date: 1911
Description: Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads."
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American Farm Yard In Winter

Date: 1866
Description: Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi...
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Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well

Date: 04 1923
Description: A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background.
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Woman Carrying Water to Farmhouse

Date: 04 1923
Description: Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter.
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Woman Pumping Water from Farmhouse Well

Date: 
Description: Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse.
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Woman Cleaning Wooden Floor

Date: 1920
Description: Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush.
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Squash Harvest

Date: 1920
Description: A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County.
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Woman Operating Cream Separator

Date: 11 1919
Description: Mrs. Robert Viall operating a belt-driven cream separator. The separator is powered by an International engine.
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 06 1923
Description: Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft.
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Woman Drawing Water from Well

Date: 05 1923
Description: Miss Neary drawing a bucket of water from a well next to a farmhouse. The original caption reads: "Drawing water from well. Miss Neary posing. Mr. Hyde pho...
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Kruegers Husking Corn

Date: 
Description: August, Mary, Tina, Saraphina, Jennie and Edgar Krueger husking corn.
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Florentina Feeding Chickens

Date: 1915
Description: Florentina Krueger feeding chickens in the yard.
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Outdoor Chores

Date: 1920
Description: Woman doing chores outdoors.
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Farm Family

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of a farm couple and their daughter posing outdoors in front of a barn.
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Washing Windows

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground.
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Kern Family at the Supper Table

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: The Kern family, Edna, Nancy, Ernest, and Maribeth, at the supper table.
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H. Sveren Farm

Date: 
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...
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Second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1869
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...
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Family in Yard of Farmhouse

Date: 1872
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...
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Woman Candling Eggs

Date: 06 1925
Description: A seated woman candling eggs at Holden Farm.

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