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Postcard

Milkmaid with Cow

Date: 1911
Description: Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads."
Photograph

Dale Farm

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Description: A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption...
Photograph

Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
Photograph

Farm Couple

Date: 1920
Description: Farm couple seated together outdoors on the lawn, his arm around her shoulders.
Photograph

Outdoor Chores

Date: 1920
Description: Woman doing chores outdoors.
Photograph

Young Farm Family

Date: 1975
Description: A young farm couple and their two children outdoors on their farm.
Drawing

Martin H. Meyer Birthplace

Date: 1870
Description: Martin H. Meyer's birthplace. Reproduced from a lead pencil sketch made in 1870.
Photograph

Belle Case La Follette Working in the Garden

Date: 1907
Description: Belle Case La Follette hoeing the garden at Maple Bluff Farm in early spring. Two of her children are working with her, apparently planting seeds, and one ...
Photograph

Belle Case La Follette and Irvine Lenroot

Date: 1906
Description: Irvine Lenroot, a leader in the La Follette-Progressive wing of the Republican Party in Wisconsin, with Belle Case La Follette and Mary La Follette at Mapl...
Photograph

Henry & Maria Getto in Buggy

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Description: Henry and Maria Getto in buggy, Oulu Township.
Photograph

Plucking Chickens

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Description: Some unidentified people plucking chicken feathers at an unidentified location.
Photograph

Feeding Milk to a Calf

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Description: A farming man and woman holding a horse and feeding milk to a baby cow.
Print

Cottage Inn

Date: 1835
Description: Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a...
Photograph

Reynolds' Farm Yard

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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.
Photograph

Poor Farm

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Description: Front view of the Poor Farm. Two front porches attach to the houses with decorative columns and lattice work. One of two front doors is open, and a side do...
Photograph

Large Expanse of Great Plains Farm Country

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Description: Elevated view of an expanse of Great Plains farm country. City buildings can be seen beyond fields.
Photograph

Farm Scene

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Description: A horse and carriage drives down a lane past a farmhouse, barns, and a windmill.
Photograph

Teenagers with Vegetables

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Description: A young man and woman wearing work clothes are standing in a garden, holding very large root vegetables. The woman is wearing a bonnet and the man is weari...

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