Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond. |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | View across field towards farm buildings, with split-rail and other types of fencing surrounding a farmhouse, a barn, a log structure and haystacks. A grou... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Clover fields on a slope in the foreground, with a frame house and barn below. In the far distance is a field with harvested hay stacks, and two other farm... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Two men wearing hats are standing in tall grass in the foreground. One man has his arm raised while pointing across a harvested field to a farmstead among ... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon along a rural lane with a man walking in front on the left. In the background is a field, fences, farmho... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | View of a farmstead with fences, haystacks and a wooden building. A man is in the background on top of McCord Rock, also called Devil's Chimney, Preacher'... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Distant view from hill of a barnyard with people, split-rail fencing, cattle, a Norwegian-style barn with cupola and rooster weather vane and an animal bui... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Three men with hats are standing in a field with a reaper and grain cradle. Two children (their images are blurred) are sitting in front of them. In the fi... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | People in a field standing around a mower, with a farmstead and windmill in background, looking west. Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) purchased the farm i... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Tollef Gjermundsen farm. Men on horseback stand in a row in the foreground, and a stone house, windmill and barn are in the background. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | View of upright and wing house with adjacent windmill structure made in Batavia, Illinois, by U.S. Wind Eng. Pump Co. The barn has a stone foundation. |
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