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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, motoring in the country in a Crosley car. Another car is behind them. |
| Date: | 07 06 1940 |
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| Description: | Allis Chalmers tractor pulling a chopper and a wagon, with one man driving the tractor, two men on the wagon, and one man talking to the driver. |
| 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: | 07 1941 |
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| Description: | A man is driving an automobile in a field near two buildings, perhaps outhouses. |
| 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: | 08 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Six Russian representatives of the Soviet government observing a new McCormick-Deering Company Model 50-T hay baler at the Bowman Dairy Farm on Fish Hatche... |
| Date: | 04 09 1945 |
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| Description: | A.M. Mickelson, 10 N. Owen Dr., inspecting the scene of the explosion at the base of Sunset point where three Madison boys were badly burned while playing ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river. |
| Date: | 08 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Abandoned army shooting range at Truax Field, with Police Officer Lester Shore in the lower right foreground. |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | HM-110-L cotton picker attached to a Farmall H tractor in a cotton field. A man is sitting at the wheel of the tractor. |
| Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The remains of the boiler tank of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arling... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two cotton pickers, the first driven by Fowler McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company, drive through a field on the Hopson Planting Co... |
| Date: | 05 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Ferdinand Heim, long-time resident of rural Middleton. |
| Date: | 08 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Scene in the cemetery near Martinsville during the internment of Lucille Ballweg, victim of a tornado. |
| Date: | 07 31 1941 |
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| Description: | People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Man mows grass with an International A tractor and mower. Caution flags are mounted on the tractor. Original caption reads: "International A used with an I... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Man mowing grass along a road or highway with an International A tractor and mower. A house, barn, some sheds, a car, and a tractor are in the background, ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Man mowing the shoulder of a highway or country road with an International A tractor. Original caption reads: "International A industrial wheel tractor wit... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers drying fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Distributing fiber to dry from the trucks." |
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