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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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Frame House and Clover Fields

Date: 1874
Description: Clover fields on a slope in the foreground, with a frame house and barn below. In the far distance is a field with harvested hay stacks, and two other farm...
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Men in Hats Standing in a Field

Date: 1874
Description: Two men wearing hats are standing in tall grass in the foreground. One man has his arm raised while pointing across a harvested field to a farmstead among ...
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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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Workers Load Straw from Baler onto International Truck

Date: 1941
Description: Three farm workers loading straw from a baler onto the back of an International K-6 truck owned by Sowash Grain Company.
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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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Horses and Central-rig

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Description: Men are in a farmyard (possibly at a sorghum mill) with horses hitched to a central-rig. A haystack, barn, wagons and farm machinery are in the background.
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Men in Field with Reaper

Date: 1873
Description: Three men with hats are standing in a field with a reaper and grain cradle. Two children (their images are blurred) are sitting in front of them. In the fi...
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Lars Davidson Reque's Farm with Men and Boys

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Description: In this tableau, men and boys stand at the edge of the field in elaborate and fanciful poses. The man on the left holds a hoe and cake while the one on the...
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Farm with Traditional Norwegian Sval House

Date: 1870
Description: People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg...
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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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View of Farm and Man on Haystack

Date: 1869
Description: A farm house, a barn with a cupola, and a man standing on top of a haystack.
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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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Man in Field of Ole Wettlesen's Farm

Date: 1874
Description: A bearded man stands with a cane in a field. Behind him are large haystacks, a barn with a cupola and a house in front of a forested area.
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Family having Coffee in Yard

Date: 1874
Description: A family is seated around a table while a woman pours the coffee. Behind them, two people stand in the doorway of a frame house. A man stands on the roof o...

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