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Farm and Rural Homestead

Date: 1890
Description: Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression.
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Farm Family and Farm

Date: 1889
Description: A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ...
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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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Family Posing in Yard

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Description: A family of five posing with their dog in the yard in front of their house. On the left is an older man sitting in a chair with a child in his lap, and in ...
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Group on Farmhouse Porch

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Description: A group of men, women and children gather on the front porch of a farmhouse. In addition to the traditional farm buildings, a windmill is visible near the ...
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Man Posed With Two Horses

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Description: A man poses, displaying two horses in the yard of a simple framed house. A woman sits on the steps of the house with a dog nearby.
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Woman Posing Side-Saddle on Horse

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Description: A woman rides a horse side-saddle in a farmhouse yard. In the background, a group of men and women gather on the farmhouse porch.
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Woman Washing Clothes

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Description: A woman washes clothes in a tub on the back steps of a farmhouse. In the background, clothes hang on a clothesline.
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Empty Bobsled in Farmyard

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Description: An empty bobsled in a farmyard in front of a wooden fence, a frame house, and other farm buildings.
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Farm Fields

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Description: View over fences, fields and road towards several wooden buildings. A man is standing overlooking the fields with his back towards the camera.
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Farm of Will O'Hearn

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Description: View across field of a large house and barn. The city water tower is on a hill on the left. Probably the farm of Will O'Hearn.
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across field towards a frame house surrounded by farm buildings. There is a road bordered by a fence on the left leading up to the farm.
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Farm Landscape

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Description: View across field towards men, women, and children posing with buggy, wagon, and plow in front of a frame house surrounded by a number of farm buildings in...
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across dirt road of farmyard. A man on the left stands with two horses in front of a barn. In the center there appears to be two women sitting in a b...
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across field and fence towards a frame house and a barn in the countryside. There is a dog sitting on the porch.
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Men Posing in front of Farm Buildings

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Description: View across field towards men posing near a picket fence. They are standing near several wagons and horses near a two-story frame house and a barn.
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across field of frame house, barn, and farm buildings.
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Elevated View of Farm Buildings

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Description: Elevated view from hill of farmhouse, farm buildings, and fenced yards. People are posing standing near the bottom of the hill behind a fence in the center...
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across fields of a frame house and farm buildings, with a large supply of logs, near a forested area.
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Farm Buildings

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Description: View across harvested field, of what was probably corn, of frame house and barn.

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