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Reaping Scene

Date: 1879
Description: Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings...
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Farm Family with Implements

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Description: A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ...
Print

"No More Crooked Rows"

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Description: Inside spread of 4-page advertising brochure for Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co. Limited with a chromolithograph of a Bonanza Forge Drop planter, "The only perfe...
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Men and the Spoils of Hunting

Date: 11 11 1933
Description: Four men posing with their dog and hunting trophies — moose, deer, bear, and fish hanging in the farmyard.
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Williamson Family Poses outside with Grandmother

Date: 1873
Description: A family poses in a yard around a table. The grandmother appears to have an embroidery hoop in her lap. In the background on the right is a grindstone. Fur...
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Madison Garden Club

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: Group portrait of men, women, and a young child, members of the Madison Garden Club, in front of the Coney Weston farmhouse, 5017 Odana Road.
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Ferdinand Heim House

Date: 05 24 1948
Description: Ferdinand Heim and Henry Noll are shown in front of Heim's family home, on Old Middleton Road, where he has lived for 83 years.
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Century House Ceramics

Date: 10 14 1948
Description: Jane Scalbom and Jane Gilbert Peterson opened a ceramics studio in one of the oldest buildings in Madison, the Century House, 3029 University Avenue. They ...
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Winterble-Keys Farmhouse

Date: 02 03 1949
Description: The living room of the historic stone farmhouse at 901 University Bay Drive, recently renovated by Freda Keys Winterble. The house was named "Keystone" aft...
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Edwin Brunner, Family Court Judge

Date: 07 27 1960
Description: Edwin Bruner, the new Family Court Judge, who will take his oath of office Friday morning, is shown with his family in the glass-enclosed living room of th...
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Turvill House and Garden

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Turvill house and garden. A man and woman are working in the garden near the Turvill home. The woman, wearing a bonnet, is bent over w...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

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Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Photograph

Fitts Family Packs to Move Again

Date: 02 18 1964
Description: Mrs. Jay Meredith Fitts sitting in an antique Victorian chair in her old farm house on Old Sauk Road near Gammon Road (the old Carl Meyer place), preparing...
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Fitts Family Preparing to Move From Farm House

Date: 02 18 1964
Description: Den room in the brick farm house on Old Sauk Road near Gammon Road rented to the George Fitts family in 1961. The room was the front parlor of the house or...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Grandma Bayles rolling out Christmas cookies in the farm kitchen with Ann Denise, 3, and baby Gale, 5 months, nearby. One in a series of images depicting C...

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