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Farm and Rural Homestead

Date: 1890
Description: Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression.
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Farm of Alex Smith

Date: 1875
Description: View from a distance of a farm in a valley owned by Alex(ander?) Smith. There is a wooden fence in the foreground surrounding the farm.
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Farmer Loading Hay Bales into Barn

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated view of a farmer using a hay loader (elevator) to transport hay bales into a barn loft. A Farmall 504 utility tractor and a Farmall 460 tractor ar...
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Farmers Threshing Grain

Date: 10 05 1928
Description: Elevated view of farmers threshing grain in a field with a belt-driven McCormick all-steel thresher run by a Farmall tractor. One person is working inside ...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Mower & Reaper Catalog

Date: 1872
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Buckeye mower and reaper with self-raker manufactured by Adriance, Platt & Company. Features an illustration of a f...
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Farmer Moves Hay with International Model H Truck

Date: 1919
Description: Farmer in an International Model H truck loaded with hay. A barn and silo are in the background. The H was produced from 1915-1923.
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Farmall M Tractor, 75-P Field Hay Chopper, Trailer and Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Two farmers are working in a field with a McCormick Farmall M tractor, a 75-P field hay chopper, a trailer and an International truck.
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Amund Rustebakke Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ...
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Primrose Landscape

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Description: View over trees towards a farm and fields, possibly those of G. Tollefson.
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Man in Field

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Description: A man with a beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in a clover field. A cornfield is just beyond the clover field, and beyond is a barn on ...
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Man in front of Fence

Date: 1873
Description: A bearded man is standing in the foreground in front of a fence, and a person is sitting on the fence on the right. Two people are standing on the hill beh...
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Split-Rail Fences

Date: 1874
Description: View across field towards farm buildings, with split-rail and other types of fencing surrounding a farmhouse, a barn, a log structure and haystacks. A grou...
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Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
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Edward Truempler Farm, Mill Creek

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Description: Elevated view across field with large haystacks towards a woman sitting in horse-drawn carriage in a farmyard.
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I.G. Brader's Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View of a farmstead with fences, haystacks and a wooden building. A man is in the background on top of McCord Rock, also called Devil's Chimney, Preacher'...
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Ole Wettlesen Barnyard

Date: 1874
Description: View of the Ole Wettlesen barnyard. A man is standing and holding a pail in the center near a lineback cow. People, cattle, sheep, horses, a barn, haysta...
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Cattle, Haystacks, and a Mill

Date: 1876
Description: Sheep and cattle are within a split-rail fence. Two men are behind the fence standing on the roof of a shade shelter for the cattle. Haystacks and a windmi...
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Norwegian-style Barn with Cupola

Date: 1876
Description: Distant view from hill of a barnyard with people, split-rail fencing, cattle, a Norwegian-style barn with cupola and rooster weather vane and an animal bui...
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Family Playing Croquet near Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: A family is posed in farmstead front yard playing croquet and looking at a farmer on a horse-drawn sulky cultivator in cornfield.
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Men Working with Hay near Farmstead

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Description: Men in a grain field are piling hay or straw onto a wagon as one man stands on top of the pile. On the left is a windmill on a wooden tower and behind are ...

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