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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads." |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Amund Rustebakke, standing in doorway, and Siri Rustebakke, center, sitting, in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning w... |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
| 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: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground. |
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| Description: | The G. Thompson family posing in front of their wooden house. One woman is sitting at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another is working at a kn... |
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| Description: | The K. Doxstad family is posed in their yard around a table covered with heavy books. A baby carriage is on the left and an older woman with her knitting i... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen (1825-1904), his wife Cathinka Doderlein Ottesen, their family and visitors are posing in a yard around a table set for cof... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Family in yard around a table, with wood fence and frame house behind; one lady has a stereoscope in her lap. The house has an angular small addition with ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev... |
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| Description: | The G. Thompson family poses in front of their wooden house. One woman sits at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another works at a knitting machin... |
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| Description: | A woman washes clothes in a tub on the back steps of a farmhouse. In the background, clothes hang on a clothesline. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Katherine (Kate) Quinney, Richard Quinney's great aunt, crocheting while seated on the running board of a Ford Model T in the yard of her family's farm. |
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| Description: | Marjorie Quinney and Henry and Howard Reynolds stand in front of the Reynold's family farmhouse with two horses and a dog. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron and holding a bowl is posing on the stairs of a cellar bulkhead on the side of a farmhouse. A bell on a wooden pole is next to the... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Rags, discarded shoes, empty bottles and food cans littering the space surrounding a rear entrance to a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A man wearing overalls and a cap is using a saw powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to cut wood on International Harvester's Hinsdale expe... |
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