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Halvor Nerison Hauge and Other Farmers

Date: 1874
Description: Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) had much to be proud of in 1874: an imposing brick house, modern harvesting equipment and a growing family. When Dahl publ...
Painting

Rodolf Farm

Date: 1834
Description: View of Rodolf farm.
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Family Farm House

Date: 1879
Description: Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o...
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E. Thorsen Farm

Date: 1874
Description: The E. Thorsen farm in Springdale.
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Jones House

Date: 1938
Description: The Jones house was built in 1867 by William L. Jones who moved to Wisconsin from New York. The carpenter for the home was Mr. William Seeley, a Yankee.
Drawing

Levi Jackson Residence

Date: 1873
Description: The home of Levi Jackson, who settled in 1842.
Photograph

Family in Front Yard

Date: 1900
Description: The Bass farmhouse, originally owned by the photographer's father, Isaac Bass. Pictured are the photographer's mother, Lorinda Bass, brother Frank Bass hol...
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Landscape from the Top of Gibraltar Rock

Date: 1909
Description: The view from Gibraltar Rock across farm fields and woods. There are corn shocks in several of the fields. A farm house and outbuildings stand near a pond...
Photograph

Sauk County Fair

Date: 1906
Description: A double exposure of a landscape featuring a very large tree and farm houses superimposed on an image of buildings and crowds at the Sauk County Fairground...
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

Two-Story Victorian Brick Farmhouse

Date: 1930
Description: A two-story Victorian brick farmhouse with eave brackets, bay windows and a front porch with fretwork railing. The Baraboo bluffs are visible in the distan...
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Bird's-Eye View of Town

Date: 1930
Description: View from hill of a farm near a pond. There are homes along the far shoreline, and a lake and hills in the far background.
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The Poet's Larch

Date: 1982
Description: The lower portion of the trunk of a large larch tree standing beside the farmhouse of poet Edna Meudt. The tree had been toppled by a tornado in 1973 and w...
Photograph

Maple Tree

Date: 1982
Description: A large soft maple tree stands beside a small house with plastic sheeting on the porch screens. There is a barn with a silo in the background, and snow on ...
Photograph

Rephotographic Pair: Iowa County Houses

Date: 
Description: A vintage view of an abandoned farmhouse on Highway 39 between Linden and Mineral Point, and a modern view of a house on the same location. The images are ...
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Dodge County Farm

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view from hill of chickens ranging near their coop behind a farmhouse and outbuildings on a tidy farm. There is a large barn on the right with two...
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North Lake

Date: 1892
Description: An elevated view of a gently rolling landscape with cows grazing in the middle distance. At right is a farmhouse and outbuildings. Young trees have been pl...

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