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Pasture with Brick House and Barns

Date: 1870
Description: A pasture is in the foreground with a brick house, barn and connected outbuildings behind it.
Photograph

Texas Longhorn Cattle at the Shey and Strand Ranch Near Deansville

Date: 05 04 1950
Description: Rare Texas longhorn cattle, among the few survivors of that famous strain, are pictured grazing at the 271-acre hobby "ranch" of Ed Shey and Peter "Pete" ...
Photograph

Rolling Farmland

Date: 06 1967
Description: Elevated landscape view of farmland rolling to the horizon. Patches of trees grow throughout the pastures.
Photograph

University Bay

Date: 1900
Description: View downhill through pastures towards the northwest looking across Lake Mendota's University Bay with Picnic Point in the background.
Postcard

Group of People Posed at Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view of a family posed on a hill in front of a farm, with farmhouse, outbuildings, and a windmill. The family is gathered on a hill i...
Photograph

Long View Across Valley

Date: 07 04 1960
Description: Elevated view from Highway P on a hill looking down across valley pastureland, between Black Earth and Marxville.
Print

Simon Hotel Menu

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Description: One-page menu with a pot of flowers, a glass of milk, and a hot (cheese?) casserole whose steam curls upward to form the letters for "menu." The line, "You...
Photograph

The Stanley Herrling Farm

Date: 06 06 1961
Description: Stanley Herrling (left), his wife, and sons Greg and Mark are each standing next to a horse at a fence bordering the pasture. This is one of a series of ph...
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Cows

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Description: Cattle are grazing in a dirt pen. Behind the cattle is a fence, and in the background is a barn.
Photograph

Driving to the Farm

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Description: View from road, with the front of an automobile on the right, towards a farm. Cows and pigs are in a pasture, and two silos are next to the barn.
Photograph

Mendota State Hospital

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Description: Elevated view from the south of the Mendota State Hospital. There are several horses in a paddock in the foreground.
Postcard

Bridge St. Bridge — Looking S.W.

Date: 
Description: View across fence towards a pasture with cows. A stream is running through the pasture, and in the background behind a fence are buildings and a church amo...
Photograph

Stallion and Shadows

Date: 1959
Description: Silhouette of a horse against a snow covered hill, on CTH PB three miles south of the Dane County Home. There is a fence around the enclosure and trees on ...

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