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Painting

Haying Time

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Description: A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July.
Painting

Corn Shredding

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Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
Painting

Sweet Clover School

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Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
Photograph

Helicopters Over Rice Fields

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Description: Elevated view of helicopters flying over rice fields in Vietnam.
Photograph

Akron Soap Box Derby

Date: 2010
Description: Portrait of Maija Liimatainen of Monroe, Wisconsin with her soap box derby car posed on the racing hill at Derby Downs, Akron, Ohio. Maija won the super st...
Photograph

Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
Photograph

Fidel and Raúl Castro with Bazooka

Date: 1958
Description: Fidel and Raúl Castro pose with a bazooka for a photograph in a field during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel is standing above on the left and Raul is kneeling...
Photograph

Cows Resting in Hilltop Pasture

Date: 2004
Description: Holstein cows resting on a sunny day in a hilltop pasture. View to horizon towards wooded hills with clouds in the sky.
Photograph

Lunt and Fontanne in the Garden

Date: 1942
Description: View down rows of vegetable garden at Ten Chimneys of Lynn Fontanne standing on the right and Alfred Lunt standing and waving his hat from a patch of corn....
Photograph

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Picnic

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne having a picnic while leaning against a stack of cut grain in a field at Ten Chimneys.
Photograph

Farms Along U.S. 16

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Description: Aerial view of a road, with several farms, fields and hills along it. Caption reads: "U.S. 16 near La Crosse, Wis."
Photograph

Power

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of a hydroelectric power plant owned by Northern States Power Company located on the Chippewa River. A highway bridge and a railroad bridge spa...
Photograph

Field Marshalls

Date: 1969
Description: Shocks of corn or grain standing in a snow-covered field. A lone tree and foliage is in the foreground. More trees and a fence are in the background. The s...
Photograph

Out of Season

Date: 1976
Description: A boy is riding his bicycle on the ice. A field and a line of trees are along the shoreline in the background.
Photograph

Snowmobile Tracery

Date: 1972
Description: Snowmobile tracks form a pattern in the snow on a farm. Farm buildings are on the left and trees are along a ridge on the right.
Photograph

One-Horse Open Sleigh

Date: 1976
Description: A man and women riding in a sleigh pulled by a single horse. In the background is a barn partially obscured by light snow.
Photograph

Farmstead Under Large Tree

Date: 08 1977
Description: A farmstead under a large tree, with fields and wooded hills in the background.
Photograph

Near Wyoming Valley

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin farm scene, south of Lone Rock, but in Iowa County. A church can be seen on the left. The hills are the south bluffs of the Wisconsin River.
Photograph

Harvest

Date: 1952
Description: A man driving a tractor, pulling a chopper filling a forage wagon, over gently rolling hills.
Postcard

Leonhard Weiss Jr.

Date: 08 14 1989
Description: A man driving a tractor that is dragging a mower. Caption reads: "Leonhard Weiss Jr., an Oak Creek weed commissioner, cut 8-foot-tall weeds on Milwaukee Co...

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