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Prize-Winning Cabbage

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca...
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Hans Holtan Family

Date: 1879
Description: This is said to be the family of Hans Holtan (a.k.a. Austinson) posed in the yard before a frame house that has carpenter's lace on porch, two separate doo...
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Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a...
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Farms of Burton, Fitlen, and Rustebakke

Date: 1873
Description: View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott...
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Andrew Thompson's House

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Description: View, looking south of a man wearing a hat in a horse-drawn buggy on a rural lane in Mount Horeb. On the right a man and three children are standing near t...
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N. Lunde Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View framed by trees of a barnyard at the N. Lunde farm. Cattle and three men are standing in an enclosed yard in front of a barn with a cupola. One of the...
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Gothic Revival Farm House

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Description: A Gothic Revival farmhouse with barge board trim behind a fence. Adjacent to the house are farm buildings, one which has a windmill mounted upon it. Men on...
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Family with House and Carriage House

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Description: Family and mailbox in front of frame house with small cross design on second story windows with wagons and farm implements in front of frame carriage house...
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People in Carriage near Farmstead

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Description: People in carriage in the foreground with a windmill, barn and horse in background. Also visible is a long line of straw-topped shelters for stock.
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Behrend Veerhusen's Farm

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Description: Stone barn with scalloped edging with people in wagons and house in background, picket fencing; in sec. 26, SE1/4. Biography in Biographical Review of Dane...
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Family with Carriages near Farmstead

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Description: Farmyard with people in carriages, on horse, standing, with barn and house in background. Long view of home with well.
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Men Working with Hay near Farmstead

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Description: Men in a grain field are piling hay or straw onto a wagon as one man stands on top of the pile. On the left is a windmill on a wooden tower and behind are ...
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Large Group near Farmyard and Windmill

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Description: A large group of men, women and children stand in front of an elaborate wood and stone fence. A horse and carriage stand at the left and behind them is a w...
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Large Group near Farmyard and Windmill

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Description: A large group of men, women and children stands in front of an elaborate wood and stone fence. A horse and carriage stand at the left and behind them a win...
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Couple Sits in Carriage by Farm

Date: 1875
Description: A couple sits in a carriage on a road adjacent to fenced-in farm buildings and an upright and wing frame house.
Painting

Schulz's Farm near Stevens Point in Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Hölzlhuber located this farm at about three German miles from Stevens Point. The region's soil was quite fertile. A wooden dwelling house stood in the mids...
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The Farm of Heinrich Cordes near Onalaska on the Black River

Date: 1859
Description: Due to rainy weather, Hölzlhuber stayed a night in the home of Heinrich Cordes, who had purchased his land from an Irishman and built "a pretty brick house...
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Rural Free Delivery

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Description: A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi...
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Farm Scene

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Description: A horse and carriage drives down a lane past a farmhouse, barns, and a windmill.
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Group of People and Horses with Farm Equipment

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men, children, women and horses posing with farm equipment in front of farm buildings, a farmhouse, and a windmill. A man is posing on a McCormick...

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