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Log Cabin with N.G. Willard Family

Date: 09 09 1895
Description: Log cabin of N.G. Willard on 80 acres of land. Two women, a young child, and an infant are posing outdoors in the yard. Laundry is hanging on lines on the ...
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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
Photograph

Farm and Rural Homestead

Date: 1890
Description: Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression.
Painting

Conant Farmstead

Date: 1890
Description: Conant Farmstead.
Photograph

Super A Tractor

Date: 
Description: View towards a man driving a Farmall Super A tractor pulling a plow in a field.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Harvester-Thresher

Date: 09 18 1923
Description: Harvester-Thresher (combine) on a hill in a field drawn by a team of eleven horses.
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Bluff Scenery

Date: 1924
Description: Long view of bluffs with a fence and a farm in the foreground.
Poster

Deering Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1883
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ...
Photograph

Dale Farm

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Description: A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption...
Photograph

International "Red Baby" Truck Leaving Rural Farmstead

Date: 1923
Description: International "Red Baby" (model S) truck loaded with binder twine(?) and a stationary engine leaving a rural farmstead. In the background a woman holding a...
Photograph

Plowing the Fields

Date: 
Description: Farmer plowing a field with two horses.
Photograph

Prospecting for Lead

Date: 06 1949
Description: Gophering, or prospecting for lead using a windlass at Maplewood Farm.
Photograph

Harvesting Grain with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Several farmers and farm laborers, including a handful of children, at work harvesting grain with a McCormick grain binder in a field.
Photograph

Winding Farm Road

Date: 05 12 1963
Description: Winding farm road and distant farm with tree-covered hill in the background.
Photograph

Pasture Hillside with Cart

Date: 05 30 1965
Description: Pasture hillside with 2-wheeled cart and a tree in the foreground.
Photograph

Farm with Old Tractor

Date: 09 07 1964
Description: Farm buildings in the Coulee country, with old tractor in foreground.
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Men Clearing Stumps

Date: 09 03 1895
Description: Clearing stumps with a stump machine on the farm of Christopher Paustenbach, three miles east of Medford, Taylor County.
Photograph

Early Morning at Railroad Crossing

Date: 10 03 1960
Description: Early morning at a railroad crossing on County Highway A, with houses and a barn in the distance.
Photograph

Newly Plowed Field and Tractor

Date: 05 20 1962
Description: A tractor parked in a newly plowed corner of a field.
Photograph

Old Ford Automobile in Farmyard

Date: 07 07 1962
Description: An old Ford automobile sitting in a farmyard, as viewed from the rear. There is a farmhouse in the background.

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