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| Date: | 07 07 1962 |
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| Description: | An old Ford automobile sitting in a farmyard, as viewed from the rear. There is a farmhouse in the background. |
| Date: | 05 16 1962 |
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| Description: | Wrecked and abandoned automobiles in a hidden rural hollow. |
| Date: | 07 04 1965 |
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| Description: | Hills and fog at sunrise, looking out from the north side of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 09 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Several fields containing wagon tracks along the side of a fence, in the vicinity of Highway P. |
| Date: | 05 13 1962 |
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| Description: | A twisting pasture stream as seen through a flowering tree. |
| Date: | 05 17 1966 |
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| Description: | A fence made of old wagon wheels above a stone retaining wall. |
| Date: | 03 20 1956 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad cars laying across and around railroad tracks while workers look on and contemplate how to clean up the massive mess caused by th... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The hangar and three airplanes (a Canuck and a J-1 Standard) at the airport operated by the Larson Brothers of Larsen, Wisconsin. The field was both the mo... |
| Date: | 07 06 1920 |
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| Description: | Farmer L.L. Harvey (right) and his son Chester posing with a Titan 10-20 tractor in front of a rural service station. |
| Date: | 01 1934 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the Oshkosh Airport about three years after Steve Wittman became the manager. The field was established in 1928 by Oshkosh Airport, Inc.... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Farmer operating an International Harvester corn planter with fertilizer attachment drawn by two horses or donkeys. The photograph was taken for, or compil... |
| Date: | 12 03 1915 |
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| Description: | Car coming down a rural dirt road. Caption reads: "A view on Houston and Oklona Pike. Chickasaw Co. has over 100 miles of fine pikes and building more." A ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. E.A. Birge in his element, reading an anemometer of the weather data station on Green Lake. |
| Date: | 05 1924 |
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| Description: | John F. Deitz holding a Luger pistol on a visit to Cameron Dam. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Iron mines with railroad tracks three miles south of North Freedom, in La Rue. One the left are buildings with three large smokestacks; on the right is mac... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A backdrop of farmland frames small white crosses arranged in a cemetery in France after World War I. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| Date: | 01 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Stone bridge on Edgewood Drive, formerly an underpass for cows to access the lake. There are buildings further up the hill in the background. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue at Packers Avenue. Shows stock yards, railroad cars and automobile parking lot. Also shows C.E. & P.... |
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