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Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
Photograph

Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming

Date: 1958
Description: Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
Photograph

Winding Farm Road

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

Newly Plowed Field and Tractor

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

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer ope...
Print

IHC Hay Presses

Date: 1914
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for IHC hay presses featuring an illustration of a landscape of a valley with farms and fields.
Photograph

Man in Field

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Description: A man with a beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in a clover field. A cornfield is just beyond the clover field, and beyond is a barn on ...
Photograph

Men in Hats Standing in a Field

Date: 1874
Description: Two men wearing hats are standing in tall grass in the foreground. One man has his arm raised while pointing across a harvested field to a farmstead among ...
Photograph

Man Tastes Wine in Vineyard

Date: 1975
Description: Color photograph of a man drinking from a glass of wine in a vineyard in France. In the background a vineyard worker is cultivating the field with an Inter...
Photograph

Man in Field

Date: 
Description: A man with a hat is sitting in a field in the foreground. A fence runs though the field in the middle ground. In the distance is an upright and wing frame ...
Photograph

G. Gullockson Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi...
Photograph

Lombardy Poplars

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Description: A rural lane lined with Lombardy poplars runs between two fenced fields. Two men are standing in the lane looking towards the camera. A church and many oth...
Photograph

Landscape View of Farm

Date: 1874
Description: A cultivated field with cows by a fence. Behind is a frame house, windmill, barn with cupola, shed and small barn with grain stacks.
Photograph

Elevated View of Town

Date: 1899
Description: View of Bloomington, with a man in the foreground looking over the vista.
Photograph

Nelson Dewey State Park

Date: 
Description: Elevated view from bluff of a house in Cassville surrounded by bluffs, trees and farmland. Railroad tracks run between the crops and the trees, and the Mis...
Book or Pamphlet

CB&Q Corn Planters Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for CB&Q Corn planters sold by International Harvester. Includes an illustration of a field with corn shocks. There is a fe...
Photograph

Battle Hollow

Date: 1898
Description: The site of the encounter between Black Hawk and his followers and General Henry.
Photograph

California Poppy Field

Date: 
Description: A worker is shown in a California poppy field.
Photograph

View from Reservoir Bluff

Date: 10 1905
Description: Elevated view from Reservoir Bluff to the east of the town. The bluffs of Iowa can be seen in the distance.
Photograph

New Deering Disc Harrow

Date: 05 22 1913
Description: Right side view of a man using a horse-drawn Deering disk harrow in a field.

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