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Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior - Museum of the Historical Society

Date: 1900
Description: The Daniel Webster carriage on display in the Historical Society's museum in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. At that time the Historical Society's quart...
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Family and Wagon

Date: 1900
Description: A family of seven, including a baby, posing on and around a wagon with bales of hay in rocky terrain. There are steep hills behind them.
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Spaulding Wagon

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Description: A highly decorated Spaulding Wagon is parked in the interior of a brick building.
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Spaulding Wagon Parked Indoors

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Description: A Spaulding Wagon parked inside of a brick building, possibly the first Spaulding Wagon built in Black River Falls.
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Spaulding Brand Wagon

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Description: A decorative Spaulding wagon is parked inside a brick building.
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Wagon Parked Indoors

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Description: A Spaulding brand wagon is parked inside a brick building.
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YWCA Dining Room

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Description: Dining room of Tatham House YWCA. A horse-drawn vehicle and an automobile can be seen through the window.
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Farmer's Museum Mail Wagon Exhibit

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Description: A mailman in a horse-drawn mail wagon makes a delivery to a man standing beside him in an exhibit at the Farmer's Museum.
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Large Group of People Posing Outdoors

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Description: View down slope towards a large group of men, women, and children posing sitting and standing in a wooded field in front of a traveling photographer's wago...
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Jos Schlitz Brewing Co., Wash House

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Description: Interior view of men working in the wash house at Schlitz Brewery. At the top right is an inset of the exterior of the building.
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Peter the Great's Carriage

Date: 1918
Description: The carriage used by Peter the Great is stored alongside a log house, within a fenced-in area.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 148-153

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Description: To some who want to leave
it would be dull
But to us who want to stay
the moment is surprising:
never lax
only turning out of nowhere lastin...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 289-296

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Description: In the letter was the hope that you were well
For shorter hours
A newer coat
And Grace when there was any Grace to tell
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 325-333

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Description: White horses, white fences that money can't buy
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 648-655

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Description: His mind wandered without rescue

The man is innocent.

and had to be brought home to the corner
and stapled to the ground
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 735-742

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Description: The disconnection sways,
rings out the moving targets racing with the mind in mathematic sound
that vanish in the distance and then appear again
a...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 743-749

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Description: Far out

The last report on peace to reach us here
was neither a promise nor easy Faith

but the hardest of all, the waiting for never
an...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 793-799

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Description: Either way, the sides are bridged,
from wine to water, cutting back to wine

Paradoxical appointments, anticipated hour —

No one event can ...
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Threshing Scene

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Description: A scene in a field of men posing on and near a thresher. A man sits on a wagon with four or five pairs of horses standing around him. There is an oval-shap...

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