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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | On a very hot day in August 1858 Hölzlhuber visited the farm of Jack Smith, an Irishman who had immigrated to Canada eleven years previously with his wife ... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Ranzer's prosperous farm was hewn out of the forest rather than the prairie. This was "of course more difficult" and needed hired help to fell and burn the... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hofmann and three sons had emigrated in 1848 from the Rhine region to northern Wisconsin. Initially they had no neighbors for a distance of four to five ho... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Mr. Klaner, who had just come from Elberfeld to Canada in 1858, purchased this farm and worked it with his wife and children. Initially they were plagued b... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest.... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of farm and farmhouse, residence of Mr. Daniel Lewis. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Painting of Paul Seifert farm showing rock formations in background and farm buildings nearby. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Painting of farm depicting farmhouse, barn, and windmill. Located east of Gotham on Old Lone Rock Road. |
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| Description: | A farmer is planting corn using the planter wire method. |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, also known as milk buggies, dropping off cans of milk at the country cheese factory during summer. |
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| Description: | A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July. |
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| Description: | A farm family takes part in milking time. The mother carries a milk can and a stripping bucket while the boy pushes milk cans on a cart toward the barn. Th... |
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| Description: | A team of three Belgian horses pulling a Deering binder through a field during the oat harvest. A farmer is driving the team, and other workers are in the ... |
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| Description: | A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to... |
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| Description: | A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi... |
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| Description: | An auctioneer, a clerk, and a helper stand on a stage on a farm conducting an auction as potential bidders surround them. Farming equipment and other items... |
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