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Farm Family Posing Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin...
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Man in Period Costume for "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Beck Barn

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Description: Vernon and Alice Beck and son, Milan, live at W1057 Zion Church Road (Section 34). Their silo is 98 years old and the barn is 150 years old.
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Nellie Arms and Her Cat

Date: 10 24 1954
Description: Nellie Arms, aunt of Lewis Arms, holds a cat outdoors at the farm she shared with her husband Bernard.
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Beck Smokehouse

Date: 2004
Description: This old smokehouse still stands on the Vernon Beck farm. The Becks will celebrate 65 years of marriage on May 24, 2004.
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Margelofsky Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: Wayne and Ruth Margelofsky live at W2202 Hwy TW (Section 6).
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Margelofsky Barn — Alternate View

Date: 2004
Description: The Margelofskys moved here in 1971. The previous owner was Henry Marose, and he did not milk either.
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Husking Corn

Date: 10 1899
Description: A view of men and women husking corn in the field behind a farmhouse. Sitting from left to right are: August Prahl, August Krueger, Sarah Krueger, William...
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Gathering Corn

Date: 11 1981
Description: Ed Radke gathering corn on land now occupied by the Theresa Library and Highlander Estates.
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Farmer Relaxes in his Workshop

Date: 11 1981
Description: Farmer Ed Radke relaxes in his not so tidy workshop.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Unidentified People

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of four women and three men posing in front of their farmhouse. Two of the men are standing on a cart pulled by two horses. The tree...
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Retired Farmers

Date: 10 2013
Description: Two retired farmers, Richard Quinney, photographer, on the right wearing a baseball cap with the phrase "Life is good" stitched on it, and his cousin, wear...
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Wisconsin Pioneer

Date: 1978
Description: An older woman is splitting wood on a farm. She is wearing a dress and apron.

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