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| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Ranzer's prosperous farm was hewn out of the forest rather than the prairie. This was "of course more difficult" and needed hired help to fell and burn the... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | The fertillity of the soil in America and Canada, especially in Wisconsin, was the attraction for most European immigrants. The vast amount of land and the... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of houses and buildings in Wonewoc. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Rural landscape with farm buildings seen from across a field and framed by trees. |
| Date: | 07 19 1895 |
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| Description: | Man and dog standing in a field of spring wheat on the farm of Ferdinand Ledke. Another man is standing in the background, facing the forest. |
| Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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| Description: | A hardwood forest ten miles southwest of Florence, containing hard maple, birch, elm, oak, hemlock, and other types of timber. Two men are leaning against ... |
| Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand waist-high in the cabbage, pea, and oat fields of the C.C. Washburn homestead, twelve miles southwest of Florence. Wooden houses or outbuildi... |
| Date: | 07 30 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in the five-foot tall pea field of Joseph Seipold three miles northeast of Antigo. Another man stands atop a horse-drawn wagon loaded with ha... |
| Date: | 08 01 1895 |
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| Description: | A field of potato plants, with a forest in the background. A man is leaning against a basswood or linden tree that stands approximately eighty-five feet ta... |
| Date: | 07 30 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in the potato fields of J.C. Lewis. The man on the right is pointing with his right arm toward the center. There is a hard maple grove in the... |
| Date: | 07 09 1895 |
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| Description: | A twenty-acre field of barley on the farm of Chas Parey, with two men standing waist-high in the barley. A hardwood forest lines the edge of the field in t... |
| Date: | 09 03 1895 |
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| Description: | The Fred Judas family poses with their second crop of red clover, three miles south of Medford. With their rakes and mower, they are converting the red clo... |
| Date: | 09 06 1895 |
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| Description: | View of a partially harvested pine forest nine miles southwest of Washburn. A pathway is being cut for a narrow gauge logging railroad. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two women, a man and a child posing on a road adjoining their homestead, with stumpland and a forest behind them. |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of McPherson's Woods, where General John Reynolds, commanding the First Corps of which Wisconsin's 2nd, 6th, and 7th regiments were a part, was... |
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