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| Description: | A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the... |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | Summer kitchen at the Turville family farmhouse. |
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| Description: | Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Man with a horse-drawn hay rake in a field. Other field workers gather hay by hand in the background. Original caption reads, "raking heavy timothy hay int... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Man on a Reynolds hay tedder pulled by team of work horses. Another man stands supervising. In the far background beyond a fence are two separate farmstead... |
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| Description: | A few dozen men stand on and around a sandy path surrounded by low shrubbery. They are wearing work clothes, and some of them are carrying bowls filled wit... |
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| Description: | A bird's-eye view of a farmland property with barns and farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cottage, with a spinning wheel on the porch, at the Bonnie View Resort near Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 06 1980 |
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| Description: | "There are some imposing hills on Lone Road. The camera faces north." |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of young people gathered in front of a tent. They are engaged in card playing, reading and needlework. In the background is a table ... |
| Date: | 05 1968 |
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| Description: | A Boy Scout or Scout Leader, with "Madison Wis 101" on his shoulder patch, making pancakes in a skillet over an open fire. Beside the skillet is a coffee p... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A man is cooking maple syrup over a wood fire among trees. Steam is billowing from the kettle. |
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