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Family in Yard of Large House

Date: 1898
Description: View across yard towards a man sitting in a chair, with two woman standing on the left and right. The two women are wearing black dresses with white bows t...
Photograph

Young Man with Tray of Drinks

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Description: A smiling young man wearing an apron stands outdoors with a tray of drinks. Behind him are farm buildings, a buggy and an automobile.
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A Woman and a Chicken

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Description: A woman stands in the yard petting and scratching a chicken perched on a stump. She is wearing a dress and has a barrette in her hair. In the background is...
Postcard

Child on Hobby Horse

Date: 1930
Description: A child rides a hobby horse that is pulling a wagon filled with a toy lion and doll. A rocking chair holding a large doll, a small doll and teddy bear is p...
Photograph

Mrs. Ch. Harris

Date: 1925
Description: A woman stands at the gate beside a wood frame house, possibly at Newport. The downspout on the house drains into a rain barrel. There are outbuildings beh...
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Obey and Day on the Farm

Date: 01 1969
Description: As part of a campaign photo shoot, Laurence Day gives candidate David R. Obey a tour of his dairying operation in Marathon County. Day was both a dairy far...
Photograph

Violet Jacobson

Date: 1932
Description: Violet Jacobson, a student at Mud Branch School, District No. 2, poses on her family's farm with several calves. There is a barn and two other outbuildings...
Photograph

Alvin Sebald

Date: 1931
Description: Alvin Sebald, 14, a student at Rhine Center School, poses in front of a tree. He is wearing bib overalls and a necktie. There is a barn and other farm buil...
Photograph

Young Men Show Off Their Fish

Date: 06 1930
Description: Tom and Bill O'Dea pose with a large Northern Pike in front of their parent's garage door on Park Street. They are wearing one piece coveralls and boots. T...
Photograph

Girl and Boy

Date: 06 1930
Description: Mary and David O'Dea pose together as they sit on the ground while leaning against their parent's garage door on Park Street.
Photograph

Three Seated Farm Girls

Date: 1895
Description: Three farm girls, probably of German extraction, seated on a bench, playing with three kids (young goats) in their laps. There are buildings in the backgro...
Postcard

Girls Feeding Geese

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Description: Photographic postcard of three girls feeding corn to a flock of geese. Two girls are standing, and one girl is sitting on the left. All three girls have bo...
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of six unidentified women and a girl posing sitting and standing in a yard.
Photograph

Norwegian Milkmaids

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Description: Two Norwegians milkmaids stand together on Grjotlid Road, holding cans of milk on yokes around their necks. They are standing at the edge of a steep hill, ...
Photograph

Boys and the Goat House

Date: 1927
Description: The Petersen brothers, from far left William Otto, Conrad Schmidt, and Edward William, with an unidentified boy (probably a cousin) pose in front of a smal...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 134

Date: 
Description: We always know what day it is
Because it never fails. Sometime between the awful and the coffee
that stepson drives along the road
and all the dog...
Photograph

Ott Family

Date: 1919
Description: The extended Ott family posing in front of a woodpile of split and cut wood stacked against a log barn located on the Ott farm. The man is adjusting his gl...
Photograph

Ojibwa Man

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Description: Caption on reverse reads: "An old Chippewa Indian meditates as he puffs a new-fangled pipe of peace." He is seated on a hillock of grass with a pole in one...
Photograph

Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1930
Description: Cora Judkins, standing, and an unidentified woman sitting on the ground, are holding ears of multicolored corn in their aprons as poults and a hen are gath...
Photograph

Boy with Dog

Date: 1905
Description: A toddler identified only as "Cheney's little boy" is posing pointing a finger at a dog sitting in front of him. There is a branch on the ground behind the...

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