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A Cultivated Farm of Michael Ranzer near New Ulm, Minnesota

Date: 1859
Description: Ranzer's prosperous farm was hewn out of the forest rather than the prairie. This was "of course more difficult" and needed hired help to fell and burn the...
Painting

Schaffler's Farm Four Hours Distant from Stillwater, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: The fertillity of the soil in America and Canada, especially in Wisconsin, was the attraction for most European immigrants. The vast amount of land and the...
Drawing

Farm and Trees

Date: 1852
Description: Rural landscape with farm buildings seen from across a field and framed by trees.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Elevated View of Farm Buildings

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Farm Home

Date: 1895
Description: Two women, a man and a child posing on a road adjoining their homestead, with stumpland and a forest behind them.

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