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Hunting Prairie Chickens

Date: 1895
Description: Two hunters check their shotguns while their hunting dogs wait in the field.
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Girl By Stream

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Description: Girl wearing dress, with hat in hand, standing next to a stream. She is shown from the back, looking downstream and waving.
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Woman Sidesaddle on Horse

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Description: Woman posing sitting sidesaddle on a horse in a field. In the background are low hills.
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Barn Raising

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building.
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Family in front of Hans Kjorstad Residence

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Description: View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m...
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Men with Dog on Ice Jam

Date: 1876
Description: Three men and a dog are standing on thick chunks of ice looking over logs on an icy river.
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Family Scything in a Field

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Description: Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row.
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Three Men Extracting a Stump

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Description: Three men working with a two-horse team on a hill turning a winch to extract stumps, probably a Svenson Grubber sold by J.H. Carnahan.
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Man Displaying Two Horses

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Description: A man holds two horses by their reins in front of a barn. A wagon is on the left.
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Man with Horses in Snow-Covered Field

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Description: A man and six horses standing in a snow-covered field on a hill.
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Horses Pulling Wagon

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Description: A man sits in a horse-drawn vehicle that is pulled by a two-horse team.
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Man Riding Horseback

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Description: A man poses on a horse in a field.
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Men, Woman and Dog Posing with a Sled

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Description: A woman and dog sit in an egg-shell cutter that is hitched to a horse while two men stand to the side.
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Women in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Two women wearing large hats stand in a field carrying a pail. Farm buildings are in the far background.
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Group on Rock Formation

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Description: Three women and a man pose at the top of a rock formation overlooking the flat fields and forest below. The three women are sitting while the man stands w...
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Three Women on Rocks

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Description: Three women sit on rocks holding their hats and gloves. The woman on the left and seated highest is probably Grace Jones Meck.
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Women and Child at Spring

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Description: Five women and a child walk across a plank bridge to the spring at Rock Spring Park. The woman third from the left is Laura Jones.
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John Greencloud Standing in Field

Date: 1906
Description: Ho-Chunk man posing standing in a open field holding a flintlock gun. He is wearing garters, moccasins, a breech cloth, necklace, and feathers in his hair....
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Ho-Chunk Couple Posed on Rocky Area

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Description: View of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing, and a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on a rocky outcrop near a tree. Far below in the background are fields, hills, ...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Picking Cranberries

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Description: Several Ho-Chunk and European American men, women, and children standing and kneeling in a field with wooden boxes. Probably picking cranberries at Gebhard...

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