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Schwister's Minnesota-Badger

Date: 1912
Description: John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Photograph

Livestock Exposition Shampoo

Date: 1959
Description: Competitors in the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition washing their animals outdoors before the judging.
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Cleaning a Poultry House

Date: 03 1929
Description: A man wearing rubber boots using a broom and lye solution to scrub the floor of a poultry house at Holden Farm.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Two men harvesting cranberries with cranberry rakes in Wisconsin marshes. There is a barge near them on the right.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of a Wisconsin cranberry bog and harvest. Men are harvesting in the flooded cranberry marshes.
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Cranberry Harvest and Inspection

Date: 1934
Description: View down dirt road of field hands working to harvest cranberries in a flooded cranberry marsh, while men inspect newly harvested and crated cranberries. I...
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Harvesting Cranberries Contained by Booms

Date: 1997
Description: Harvesters wade through cranberries contained by booms in the cranberry marsh as they travel on a conveyor belt into the waiting trucks.
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Man at Conveyor Belt for Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: A man stands in the water next to the conveyor belt that transports cranberries into the truck.
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Men Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: Elevated view of harvesters wading through cranberries contained by booms to feed them onto a conveyor to be loaded into the waiting trucks.
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Ziemer Auction

Date: 09 1979
Description: "The Ziemer auction is being held at the Dog's farm on County P."
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Fire at Schwertz Farm

Date: 04 30 1997
Description: "Theresa and Knowles firemen battle a blaze on the Richard Schwertz farm on Cty WT near Mayville."
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Flanders 20

Date: 1912
Description: August Kressin sitting in the driver's seat of a Flanders 20. He is wearing a pair of driving gloves. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Barn Fire Near Brooklyn

Date: 10 05 1963
Description: Firemen are fighting a blaze that destroyed a barn and its contents 2 miles south of Brooklyn.
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Woman Driving Farmall Tractor in Field

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a woman driving a Farmall tractor in a field. In the background are farm buildings among trees. W.B. Burkett.
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Resting at the Illinois Border

Date: 1933
Description: A group of Harley-Davidson riders stopping for a rest on the side of the highway at the Wisconsin-Illinois border. A man and a woman, wearing Milwaukee Mot...
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At the Badger Derby

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Description: A man is riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle in the Badger Derby. He is racing through a ditch filled with sand, wearing motorcycle gear. On the opposite...

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