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Ringling Brothers Circus Parade

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of the Circus Parade on a rainy day. Crowds of people line the street, and many are holding umbrellas.
Postcard

City Hall and Spring Street

Date: 1909
Description: Colorized postcard view down the unpaved street, with the city hall building on the corner on the right. Caption reads: "City Hall and Spring Street, Beave...
Postcard

Front Street, Looking East

Date: 
Description: Colorized postcard view down center of the street in the central business district. Horses and buggies are parked along the curbs, and pedestrians are on t...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 02 10 1901
Description: Winter scene with Herman Riebe, his four sisters, and a cousin riding in a bobsled pulled by a team of white horses through the snow. A fence, a snowy fiel...
Photograph

Krueger Family Outside a Barn

Date: 05 07 1903
Description: Edgar, Alexander, and Jennie Krueger standing outside a barn. A young colt named "Frank" is standing in front of Alexander. The colt's mother, "Flora," is ...
Photograph

Alexander Krueger on a Horse

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Alexander Krueger riding a horse named Jim, while holding a rifle. Alexander is wearing a hat, bandana around his neck, striped shirt, shotgun shell belt, ...
Photograph

Sam Goetsch on Horseback

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: Sam Goetsch sitting on a horse in a fenced-in yard.
Photograph

Sam Goetsch on Horseback

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: Sam Goetsch sitting atop a horse in a fenced-in yard.
Photograph

Sam Goetsch on Horseback

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: Sam Goetsch sitting atop a horse in a fenced in yard.
Photograph

Flora Fels Weege on Horseback

Date: 1908
Description: Flora Fels Weege sitting on top of a horse holding a rifle. She is wearing a men's suit, a hat, and a belt holding ammunition.
Photograph

Flora Fels Weege Riding a Horse

Date: 1908
Description: Flora Fels Weege sitting on a white horse while wearing a man's suit, hat, and a belt containing ammunition. She has a rifle propped in her right arm.
Photograph

Manure Spreader

Date: 1908
Description: Alexander and August Krueger spreading manure with a Litchfield spreader pulled by a three horse team. August is sitting on top of the spreader with the fa...
Photograph

Cutting Corn

Date: 1906
Description: August, Alexander, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger cutting corn using a Deering corn binder. Alexander is sitting on the binder holding the reigns attached to th...
Photograph

Using a Deering Corn Binder

Date: 1906
Description: August, Alexander, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger cutting corn using a Deering corn binder. Alexander is standing next to the three horse team while Edgar is si...
Photograph

Stacking Grain

Date: 1908
Description: Alexander and August Krueger stacking grain. Alexander is standing on top of a tall pile of hay on a wagon, piling grain on the stack, while August is stan...
Photograph

Posing on Horses

Date: 1908
Description: Jennie, Edgar, and Alexander Krueger posing bareback on horses. They are lined up to face the left, spaced in a row. The horses are wearing horse collars, ...
Photograph

Sunday Ride

Date: 1908
Description: Members of the Krueger family, including Edgar, Florentina, Jennie, and Sarah, sitting together in a lumber wagon on a Sunday ride. A two-horse team is pul...
Photograph

Ella and Ida Scholz in a Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 1913
Description: Ella and Ida Scholz sitting in a cutter (sleigh) in front of the Langholf home. The sleigh is being pulled by a horse.
Photograph

Drilling a Well

Date: 07 1901
Description: Two men drilling a well in the Will's woods using a cable tool drilling rig powered by a team of two horses. One man is standing next to the drill holding ...
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Horse and Cutter

Date: 1901
Description: Winter scene with Joseph Langenbach sitting in a horse-drawn cutter (sleigh) at the end of the snowy driveway. In the background is a fence and a U.S. Mail...

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