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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t... |
| Date: | 03 04 1932 |
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| Description: | Piper Brothers farm scene, 4718 Odana Road near Midvale. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cattle yards near the railroad tracks. A farm and farm buildings can be seen in the background. |
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| Description: | View of the Quammen family farm with a man in the foreground standing in a field. Behind him and across the field is an upright and wing frame house with w... |
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| Description: | People are playing croquet in a field in the foreground with other people, horses, cattle and carriages also posing in the field. In the background, peopl... |
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| Description: | H. Sveren farm with the family standing in the foreground and a dog, farm buildings and fences in the background. A line of trees is behind the farmhouse o... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View of Dr. Blake's (probably Samuel M.) house in Lodi or Prairie du Sac with a white picket fence in front of it. A man is standing in the grass in front ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A bearded man is standing in the foreground in front of a fence, and a person is sitting on the fence on the right. Two people are standing on the hill beh... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Andrew Amundsen's farm. A man with horses is at a well in the foreground. The well utilizes a well sweep. A barn, house and granary are on... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in front of a fence along a road in the foreground. Two other men are in the road; one is standing and one is on horseback. Onon Bjorn Da... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of a prosperous farmstead from a neighboring hill. A man is standing near a woman in a horse-drawn vehicle in front of a board fence in the foreground... |
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| Description: | A man standing on a hill with his back to the camera surveys newly-built farm buildings and a large frame house with symmetrical features. Fencing runs thr... |
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