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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.
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Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1905
Description: View across field towards the observatory. Caption reads: "Yerkes Observatory, Lake Geneva, Wis."
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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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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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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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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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Bird Feeder

Date: 1932
Description: Identified as "A lunch counter for birds," a platform feeder has been mounted on a fence post behind Gardners Prairie School, District No. 7, Town of Sprin...
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High Jump

Date: 1932
Description: A boy is caught mid-air in his approach to the high jump. Many other children and adults watch. One man identifiable by the "W" on his sweater is a student...
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The Baker Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Young trees and corn grow in a fenced field in front of a two-story wood frame house, two barns and another building. In the background there are open and ...

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