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Woman Sidesaddle on Horse

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Description: Woman posing sitting sidesaddle on a horse in a field. In the background are low hills.
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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Barn Raising

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building.
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Two Men with Horse-Drawn Vehicles

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Description: Horse and buggy of a man from town meets the road cart/sulky of the farmer. People are standing in a field in the background.
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Two Men with Racehorse

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Description: Elevated view from grandsstand towards men adjusting a jockey's stirrup and the gear of a horse on racetrack. On the other side of the track is the judges ...
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Group of People on Stagecoach

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Description: Women inside, and on top of a stagecoach with their umbrellas. A wagon is in the background on the right.
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Group of People on Stagecoach

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Description: Group of people posing on top of stagecoach. It was a special occasion when the old stagecoach was brought out. The top-loading was probably done to get ev...
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Group of People on Stagecoach

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Description: Group on a stagecoach pulled by a team of four horses. A man is standing on left in the road next to the stagecoach. In the left background are buildings a...
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Two Women and Baby in Field

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Description: Two women playing with a baby while reclining on a blanket in a farm field with two carriages in the background.
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Man and Women in Buggy

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Description: A man and woman sit in a buggy that is pulled by a two-horse team.
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Crowd Gathering in a Field

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Description: A large group of men, women, and children gather in a field.
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Crowd Under Pavilion

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Description: A large crowd gathers under a pavilion in a field.
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Two Women Posed Outdoors

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Description: Two women wearing long dresses are posed standing with their hands on their hips in a field in front of a tree. There is a dog near the tree, and part of a...
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Farmland and Buildings

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Description: View across field of farm buildings, a frame house, cattle in a corral, and a large haystack. A group of people and buggies is posing near the farmhouse.
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Farm Landscape

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Description: View across field towards men, women, and children posing with buggy, wagon, and plow in front of a frame house surrounded by a number of farm buildings in...
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Farm Buildings

Date: 1895
Description: Board frame house and farm buildings.
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Bright-Withel Farms

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Description: Group portrait of six men displaying ten horses in front of a barn, possibly the Bright-Withel farms near Hixton.
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. The negative is double exposed and shows the outline of a photographer's wagon.
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Men Playing Baseball

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Description: Men are playing baseball in an open field in front of farm buildings and a small group of people.
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One-Room Cabin

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Description: One room wooden cabin with a shingle roof surrounded by a post fence.

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