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Filter: Year of 1940-1949
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two boys sled down a snow covered hillside at the farm. Two leafless trees are on the right. Along the horizon is a red building on the left with a fence s... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Black and white sketch of a mailbox on a post in a milk can, with its flag up, next to a country road. Across the road is a tree and fence, with a field an... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A painting of a dairy farm, which was part of the State Fair Centennial mural. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing depicting the first automobile race held in Wisconsin. The two vehicles each carry two men on a rural road. A handful of spectators, includ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Stream which runs through Hinsdale Farm. Buildings are obscured among trees in the far background. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Left side view of a man operating a Farmall M pulling a harvester-thresher in a field of wheat. A front end winch is on the tractor. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A man, likely a conservation warden, stands looking upward with his left hand resting on the trunk of a tree near the Star lake Ranger Station. The trees ... |
| Date: | 05 26 1947 |
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| Description: | View across road and fields towards three wooded hill peaks. A roadside fence is in the foreground. Caption reads: "D.A. 36-268 — Three peaks on Hy.71 betw... |
| Date: | 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Robert Palzer, owner of the farm, is using a Model 5-C John Deere portable farm elevator to convey hybrid corn to the kernel remover in the building. The w... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a farm in mid-winter. Snow blankets the ground and some of the buildings. An orchard is in the foreground. |
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