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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1891
Description: Back cover illustration of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows children and adults, some of them circus performers, inside a large tent...
Photograph

Silverstone, My Tailor

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Description: A boy on a Milwaukee street is driving a goat cart with an advertisement for Silverstone the tailor. Several on-lookers are watching from the left hand sid...
Photograph

Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity and Bamby

Date: 11 22 1949
Description: Bamby, the 150-pound goat who was the mascot of the University of Wisconsin chapter of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, was sent to the ATO chapter at Ohio Stat...
Photograph

Mabel Trunnelle Holding a Goat

Date: 1917
Description: Mabel Trunnelle, player in Edison Company silent films from 1909, is dressed in a white sailor's suit and straw hat and holds a young goat.
Photograph

Hunter With Dead Mountain Goat

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Description: A hunter poses with a dead mountain goat hanging from a tree on a hillside.
Photograph

Mork Barn

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Description: For 8 years, Laura Mork has lived on this farm at N8369 Hwy 175 (Section 22) with her two goats and two dogs.
Photograph

Kletzien Barn

Date: 2004
Description: Mark and Vicky Kletzien, with their children, Ben and Mindy, live at N9742 Cty Road. AY. Just a bit north of the Theresa Township line.
Photograph

Kletzien Barn — Alternate View

Date: 2004
Description: Mindy Kletzien, an animal lover, raises Nigerian Dwarf Goats. She competes at fairs in and out of the state.
Photograph

Lewis Arms with Goat and Dog

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Description: Lewis Arms poses with a goat and a dog on Otis Arms's farm.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Just Plums

Date: 1911
Description: Two boys haul four giant plums using a small wagon pulled by two white goats. One boy is holding the reins. The boys are wearing jackets and caps. The back...
Photograph

Arms Boys with a Goat

Date: 1957
Description: Craig Arms (left) and his brother Lewis Arms, Jr. pose with a goat, standing in the snow.
Photograph

Weigand Barn — Exterior of Second Barn

Date: 2004
Description: This farm has been in the Weigand family since 1864. This barn was built in 1857. The cows were last milked on the property in 1994. The goat is called He...
Postcard

The Return From the Alps

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Description: Color postcard of a Swiss farmer returning home with his animals. Many of the animals, and five of the shepherds, are labeled with a name. The path loops b...
Postcard

Six Men and a Goat

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length studio portrait of six men, three standing and three sitting. On the left is a goat. Attached to the painted backdrop, a poster for the Calumet...
Photograph

Three Seated Farm Girls

Date: 1895
Description: Three farm girls, probably of German extraction, seated on a bench, playing with three kids (young goats) in their laps. There are buildings in the backgro...
Photograph

Milking the Goats

Date: 1930
Description: A man has tied up a flock of goats and a woman is milking them. They are wearing indigenous clothing. The landscape is rocky with hills in the background. ...
Painting

Expedition with Supply Cart

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Description: An illustration created using cutout photographs and white, gray and black paint on cream colored paper. The scene depicts, in profile, a man pulling a loa...
Photograph

"Porgy and Bess" Production Still

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Description: Production still from the film "Porgy and Bess." Porgy (Sidney Poitier) kneels on his cart which is pulled by a goat. He passes a group of men playing dice...
Photograph

Children with Goats

Date: 1927
Description: Five children, probably cousins, including Edward Petersen, center, and his brother Conrad, second from right, pose with two goats in an orchard at Black P...
Photograph

Boys and the Goat House

Date: 1927
Description: The Petersen brothers, from far left William Otto, Conrad Schmidt, and Edward William, with an unidentified boy (probably a cousin) pose in front of a smal...

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