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Rural Houses in Winter

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Description: View through trees of snow-covered houses next to a field with hills in the background.
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Rich Valley Looking Down Mill Creek Valley

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Description: Rich Valley looking down at Mill Creek Valley. There are several farmhouses among the fields.
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Scene near Bloom City

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Description: Elevated view of farmland. In the bottom-left center, there is a structure with a bell tower near a dirt road. In the center there is a similar building. T...
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Looking West from Bluff

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Description: A bird's-eye view of a farmland property with barns and farmhouse.
Postcard

Church and Farmhouses

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of a church with cemetery and farmhouses and rolling hills in the distance. Caption reads: "Ashippun, Wis."
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
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General View of Governor Nelson Dewey's Estate

Date: 1904
Description: Panoramic view of Governor Nelson Dewey's estate. The left image is of an old stone barn with a shed in the rear. The center image is another barn. The rig...
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Seneca Scenic View

Date: 1912
Description: A scenic view over rolling hills with a road leading to the horizon. There are trees, fields and farm buildings on the left. In the foreground on the right...
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Ruins of Cyclone — William Brace Farm

Date: 08 07 1924
Description: View across yard of a storm-damaged farmhouse. In the foreground is an overturned automobile. The windows of the house have been blown out and the roof has...
Photograph

80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: View of field full of parked automobiles at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Swiss Colony at New Glarus. A log structure in...
Photograph

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Bridge

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Description: View down railroad tracks of a railroad bridge, which has framed beams on the sides and top. A boy and girl are standing and posing on the bridge. Signs ar...
Postcard

Group of People Posed at Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view of a family posed on a hill in front of a farm, with farmhouse, outbuildings, and a windmill. The family is gathered on a hill i...
Postcard

Busy Road near Blanchardville

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Description: Elevated photographic postcard view of a busy road near Blanchardville. Men are driving a wagon hitched to eight horses, and people are standing in the roa...
Photograph

Farm Home of Thomas Convey

Date: 1907
Description: Farm home of Thomas Convey family, at or near Ridgeway. In the foreground, two men stand near a horse-drawn wagon. Five women are standing on a stone wall ...
Photograph

Unidentified Residence and People

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a family at their farm. The family is posing on the far right in the yard. On the left near the house is a windmill with a sign f...
Photograph

Sledding

Date: 02 2014
Description: Two boys playing on a snow-covered hill on a farm. There is a house in the background. One boy is sledding down the hill on a sled face first, while a dog ...
Photograph

House and Old Sauk Pass

Date: 10 18 1978
Description: View down Old Sauk Pass towards a house in a valley during a rainstorm in rural Wisconsin.
Photograph

Simpson's Valley

Date: 1950
Description: View down hill towards a farm in a valley, with harvested corn in corn shocks in the field. Tree-lined hills are in the background. Text on reverse of imag...
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Farmstead Under Large Tree

Date: 08 1977
Description: A farmstead under a large tree, with fields and wooded hills in the background.

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