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Milking on the Greene Farm

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Description: Barn interior on the Greene Farm with cows in stalls, with one man milking a cow, and another man standing and holding a bucket and milking stool.
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A Full Dozen

Date: 09 1904
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger playfully hunting for eggs.
Postcard

Colonial Farm House Display

Date: 1946
Description: The "Colonial Farm House" in the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Caption reads: "Colonial Farm House, Harvester Farm,...
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Harvester Farm Exhibit

Date: 1946
Description: A view of the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. Includes a barn, a farmhouse, and an International pickup truck in the distance...
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Man Vacuuming a Cow

Date: 08 13 1948
Description: A man vacuuming the back of a cow in a barn using a DAIRY-VAC machine.
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Ruth B. Glassow Home

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Ruth B. Glassow, a professor of physical education for women at the University of Wisconsin, stacks wood in the outdoor fireplace that she built by herself...
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Miniature Farm Display at Muscatine Imp. Co.

Date: 07 02 1929
Description: A tabletop display of a miniature farm, including a house, barn, garage, windmill, fences, plants, tractor, truck, animals, and two water pumps. A sign on ...
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Woman Milking Cow

Date: 1939
Description: Mrs. Harvey Schmidt sits on a stool in a barn to milk a cow by hand.
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Schnitzler Barn — Interior

Date: 2004
Description: Andy and Karen Schnitzler and "Ruffy" pose in their Community Center. The Schnitzlers purchased the farm in 1980 and began the center in 1988.
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Steger Home — Interior

Date: 2004
Description: Marilyn Steger has a nice view of the barn through the large picture window in her spacious home.
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Groups of People Standing in Front of a Frame House

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Description: View across unpaved road towards four boys and three girls posing standing in front of a fence in front of a two-story house. A man, and a woman holding a ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 304-311

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Description: Always looking at the vacancy in that great sea of people

All there ever was was a greeting card
and that one a mirage
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Eating Bread in the Barn

Date: 1910
Description: Alexander and Florentina Krueger are sitting in a barn wearing traditional Pomeranian attire, including the wooden shoes. Alexander is pouring himself some...
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Women Weaving and Spinning

Date: 1922
Description: Mrs. (Christine) Peterson and Mrs. Torgeson (a neighbor) are working in the upstairs loft of the barn. Christine is sitting in a chair using a spinning whe...

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