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Canfield Hop House

Date: 1900
Description: Old Canfield Hop House, exterior of building. Text reads: "Of the many fantastic hop - houses, this one alone remains a relic of the famous days of Sauk Co...
Photograph

Stone Hop House

Date: 1908
Description: Stone Hop House, built by Dr. Taylor on section 27, Northeast corner of the Town of Greenfield.
Photograph

Enos L. Jones Farm

Date: 1903
Description: View down hill of the Enos Lloyd Jones farm with Hillside Home School and Romeo and Juliet in the background.
Photograph

Wisconsin Heights, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Elevated view. Caption on negative sleeve reads: "Black Hawk Battlefield. Wis. Heights. Looking N. of E. up valley towards Catholic Church. Mrs. Charles N....
Photograph

Hop House

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of a hop house built in about 1868 by H.J. Meyer.
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
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...
Photograph

Sousaphone Player in Barnyard

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Description: Member of a local farmers' band practicing in a barnyard with a cow and pony. Another animal, unidentified, stands behind the sousaphone player.
Photograph

Terrace Plowing Demonstration

Date: 09 27 1945
Description: Group portrait of the four men in charge of the terrace plowing demonstration and conservation field day on the Carl Ribbke farm near Ableman. From left ar...
Photograph

The La Valle Story Photographs

Date: 05 03 1949
Description: John Gates, a farmer near La Valle, standing beside his tractor. He was once a saxophone player with a dance orchestra.
Photograph

Cornfield

Date: 1906
Description: Large pile of corn shocks stand in a field identified as the place where Wallace Renan was buried. Farm buildings are visible in the distance.
Photograph

Corn Crib

Date: 06 04 1961
Description: View up a hill towards a small corn crib in the sunlight. On the left is a barn.
Photograph

Farm Scene

Date: 1925
Description: A farm scene with a fence and gate, and milk can in the foreground. In the background is a large barn with a stone foundation, with a man walking nearby.
Photograph

Wisconsin Landscape

Date: 1920
Description: A view of a rolling rural landscape, most likely in Sauk County. In the far distance are houses and farm buildings, a church and a larger building, center ...
Photograph

Autumn Farm Scene

Date: 1920
Description: A small farmhouse in the Greek Revival style stands near a field with corn shocks and pumpkins. Large evergreens line the lane, and a barn is in the backgr...
Photograph

Rock Scenery

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Description: View of house and farm buildings in Ableman with a rocky hill in the background.
Photograph

Canfield Hops House

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Description: Small house used for the storage of harvested hops.
Photograph

Loading Corn into Silo

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Description: The barn in the foreground, left, is the school barn for the Hillside Home School (which was run by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts & Enos Lloyd Jones sisters, ...
Photograph

High Bridge

Date: 1922
Description: View from shoreline of bridge over the Wisconsin River. In the left lower foreground is a shed, and a rowboat. On the opposite shoreline are farms and fiel...
Photograph

View from Bluff Near Crystal Lake

Date: 1925
Description: View from bluff of Crystal Lake and surrounding rolling hills. There is a dairy farm in the foreground at the bottom of the bluff. Cows are grazing in fiel...
Photograph

Farm Scene Through the Mist

Date: 1965
Description: Cedar tree and farmland in mist.

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