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H. Sveren Farm

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Description: H. Sveren farm with the family standing in the foreground and a dog, farm buildings and fences in the background. A line of trees is behind the farmhouse o...
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Oak Grove Cemetery

Date: 1920
Description: The Oak Grove Cemetery entrance gate donated by George Esterly. The Esterly family lot is just inside the gate.
Postcard

Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1905
Description: View across field towards the observatory. Caption reads: "Yerkes Observatory, Lake Geneva, Wis."
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Alfalfa Field "The Manx"

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Description: Photographic postcard view across harvested field towards a man holding a rake and standing next to a horse-drawn wagon, and two women in the wagon sitting...
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Elderberries on Quinney Farm

Date: 2001
Description: Elderberries in the countryside foreground and a landscape view of the Quinney farm.
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John Quinney

Date: 1920
Description: John Quinney, Richard Quinney's grandfather, standing in front of a horse-drawn harrow on the fields of his farm.
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Katherine Quinney

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Description: Katherine (Kate) Quinney, Richard Quinney's great aunt, standing on a country road near the family's farm looking over fields lightly dusted with snow. Th...
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Floyd Quinney

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Description: Floyd Quinney, Richard Quinney's father, feeding cows and chickens in a field on his family's farm.
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Marjorie at the Old Place

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Description: Marjorie Quinney looking towards the Quinney family farmhouse from a distant field.
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Baby Richard Quinney

Date: 1934
Description: Baby Richard Quinney held by his mother, Alice Quinney, in the farmyard.
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Richard Quinney and Grain Binder

Date: 1937
Description: Young Richard Quinney atop the family's new horse-drawn grain binder in a field.
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Ralph Quinney Waters the Family Cows

Date: 1938
Description: Young Ralph Quinney fills a water trough for a group of Jersey cows on the family farm.
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Grain Binding

Date: 1944
Description: Young Ralph and Richard Quinney pose for a picture while they cut grain by themselves for the fist time. View includes a grain binder, a tractor and their...
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Hay Mowing

Date: 1947
Description: Young Ralph Quinney driving a horse-drawn hay-mower on his family's farm.
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Corn Cultivation

Date: 1947
Description: Yound Richard Quinney operating a tractor to cultivate corn.
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Lorena Taylor Holloway

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Description: Lorena Taylor Holloway, Richard Quinney's maternal grandmother, standing in a farmyard with a building, milkcans and a fenced field in the background.
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Camels Near Farm

Date: 1920
Description: View across road of six camels walking and grazing along the side of a country road near Holloway Farm. They may have been circus animals going from one to...
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Elephants on Country Road

Date: 1920
Description: Three elephants on the side of the road near Holloway Farm. Two of the elephants are chained together. They may have been circus animals going from one tow...
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Farm of Elmer Willis Sesl (Seil)

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Description: The Elmer Willis Sesl (sp?) farm. The photograph has the term "Exhibit "B"" written on the front in ink.
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Location of Former Dunham School

Date: 1990
Description: The location of the former Dunham school as seen from the Quinney farm. In the foreground is a field of corn, with rolling hills and trees in the backgroun...

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