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Rural Scene

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Description: A view of Coon Valley at sunrise, including a wooden building, a fence, and trees.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 1-6

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Description: We've at least been able to conserve something if it's only the idea of conserving for conservation's sake
But the community interests ought to come fir...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 55-61

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Description: Way back in the soft center of hard times
did not their resistance to change in the sentiment
make some sense

What could take the place of the...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 514-521

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Description: Put aside anything so futile

All that fermented time
spent and blackened, much obscured,
is now restored with cheese and wine
Photograph

Open Fields

Date: 1960
Description: View down slope across open fields over a barbed wire fence towards the horizon. The field is uncut in the foreground, obscuring an abandoned farm implemen...
Photograph

Hilltop Landscape

Date: 1964
Description: Pasture hilltop, early morning, on highway 78, between Mazomanie and Sauk City.
Photograph

View of Sunrise

Date: 1965
Description: Sunrise over a wooded hillside between Spring Green and Dodgeville.
Photograph

Ford in the Weeds

Date: 1962
Description: Old Ford coupe in a farm setting.
Photograph

Farmland and Hills

Date: 07 04 1965
Description: Farmland, trees and shrubs against a background of wooded hills.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

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Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 72

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Description: Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings,
the quick-step dried and gone to the bone.
Embrace the wall and face away from trouble
in the winter ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132

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Description: The parson came. He said it well:
Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on,
not the sky.
A little harvest of the sorrows
between the sentenc...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 134

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Description: We always know what day it is
Because it never fails. Sometime between the awful and the coffee
that stepson drives along the road
and all the dog...
Photograph

Outcropping Near Mount Horeb

Date: 1963
Description: View uphill towards a rocky outcropping on a hilltop near Mount Horeb, with storm clouds gathering in the sky. Fence posts are partway up the hill, and a f...

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