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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two farmers cutting firewood with a belt-driven circular saw powered by a McCormick Farmall H tractor. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View towards two men cutting wood with a saw powered by a McCormick standard W-4 tractor. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards a man loading logs for firewood(?) onto an International truck during winter. |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Prairie Farm Creamery with horse-drawn wagons in front. Caption reads: "Prairie Farm Creamery, Pr. Farm, Wis." |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Korean farmer hauling wood for fuel on his back with an "A-frame." Original caption reads: "One ocean away, one century behind, the Korean farmer saddles h... |
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| Description: | Native American children, presumably students, and adults pose outside an Indian school. The location is not verified, but may be in the Hayward vicinity. |
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| Description: | A man stands near a woodpile and points a revolver toward his chest. |
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| Description: | Elevated panoramic view of the Wisconsin River shoreline in the Wisconsin Dells. There is an excursion boat, The Dell Queen, visible in the lower le... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six men on the shore of a river, with piles of clam shells inside loose wooden fences near a pile of firewood and an axe. The firewood may... |
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| Description: | View down hill of a teacher standing in an open doorway, with students standing and sitting on the wooden landing of a clapboard one-room school building. ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Marjorie Quinney, Richard Quinney's aunt, wearing a stole and a checkered coat, standing behind a Model-T Ford on the family farm with sheds in background. |
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| Description: | View of a man in a hat, sitting on a donkey drawn cart filled with fire wood. The cart sits on a dirt road with woods in the background. Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two men cutting logs with a circular saw powered by a stationary engine. One man is feeding logs to the saw while the other man is standing by a pile of th... |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, also known as milk buggies, dropping off cans of milk at the country cheese factory during summer. |
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| Description: | Neighbors work together in the final process of sawing firewood, as they saw poles into blocks. The man with the plaid shirt and suspenders is the owner of... |
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| Description: | Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and suspenders is using an axe to slaughter a chicken, using a log as a base. A large pile of firewood is behind him. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man is using an axe to butcher a chicken on a tree stump. A large pile of firewood is in the background. |
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