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| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
| Date: | 06 1837 |
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| Description: | Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A crew of telephone line repairmen working on a rural line with their International truck parked below them. An IH truck, with storage compartments sitting... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga... |
| Date: | 09 03 1895 |
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| Description: | Clearing stumps with a stump machine on the farm of Christopher Paustenbach, three miles east of Medford, Taylor County. |
| Date: | 11 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts planting a Norway spruce tree on "George Washington Drive," a stretch of road a mile long on Highway 51, extending north from the intersection w... |
| Date: | 09 13 1949 |
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| Description: | A man and woman driving their horse-drawn cart into the woods to collect buckets that are hanging from maple trees. The buckets catch sap that is used to m... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Three children stand at the corner of the home of the Reverend Abraham Jacobson (1836-1910) and his wife Nicoline Hegg Jacobson. Two adults stand in a tree... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family in front of large brick rural house that has shutters, elongated basement windows and large bay window. A man sits with a hand scythe at the right. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man and two women standing on a stile of broad wood in the middle of a field. The man standing on the second step, wearing a coat, bow tie, and fedora. T... |
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| Description: | A crew of farm laborers take a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman offers food and drinks. They are posed in front of a reaper with the family ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men and a child in Granton (vicinity), Clark County, Wisconsin. They are gathering maple syrup with a horse-drawn sled. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Man in "sugar bush" (grove of maples) boiling down maple sap in production of maple syrup. Probably Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Man and woman using a double-handled saw to clear trees from their land. |
| Date: | 06 29 1928 |
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| Description: | Group of Mexican workers posing in front of a large stack of hay. Most of the people are wearing hats, many of them sombreros, and worn clothing. Several p... |
| Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Completed two-story wood frame main office building at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
| Date: | 05 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Men with shovels working downstream from the east abutment, while other men are looking on. |
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