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Conant Farmstead

Date: 1890
Description: Conant Farmstead.
Photograph

Orchard and Landscape

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a split-rail fence enclosing an orchard, with farmsteads and more fences in the distance. A man wearing a hat is posing with his hands on ...
Photograph

Carcajou Pasteur

Date: 1920
Description: View of a rocky pasture with some small, distant farm buildings, and a few farm animals grazing.
Photograph

The Sauk Prairie

Date: 1892
Description: A view of the Sauk Prairie looking south. From the left are the photographer's brother, Frank Bass; Mrs. Edward (Ada Burlingame) Bass and her daughter, Eve...
Photograph

Taliesin II Gardens and Pasture Below Building

Date: 
Description: Gardens and pasture below the southeast side of Taliesin II.
Photograph

Taliesin I Garden and Pasture

Date: 1912
Description: Pasture, vegetable gardens, and trees on the southeast side of Taliesin I.
Photograph

Richardson Farm

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Description: The Richardson Farm stands at the far edge of a farm field with a creek running through it and animals grazing. The farmhouse is white and surrounded by tr...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Cream Separators and Milkers Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the McCormick-Deering cream separators and milking machines (milkers). Includes the text: "For One Cow or a Hundred" a...
Photograph

Cows Resting by Stream

Date: 1935
Description: View down hill of a group of cows resting by a stream near trees and a fence. A handwritten caption reads: "Hamilton, Ontario. Dairy Cows near city. Taken ...
Photograph

Cows Resting near Barn

Date: 05 1936
Description: A herd of cows rests in the shade of a tree near a barn.
Photograph

Leaning Corner Fence Post

Date: 1914
Description: Fence with farm buildings and open fields in the background. The corner post of the fence is leaning inward. Original caption reads: "This shows wrong way ...
Photograph

Fence Post Removal

Date: 1915
Description: A man uses a "handy device for pulling old fence post" (original caption).
Photograph

Young Boy with Two Dogs

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Description: A young boy wearing work clothes, boots and a knit cap stands on a hill with his two dogs. Behind him a man holding what appears to be a coil of wire is st...
Photograph

Cow Along Road

Date: 1916
Description: A cow, lying outside the fence, observes a car stopped on Sturgeon Bay Road (now Highway 42). Cherry trees bloom inside the fence.
Photograph

Calves in Orchard

Date: 1916
Description: Two calves lying under blooming cherry trees in a Door County orchard.
Photograph

Shire and Cleveland Horses

Date: 1895
Description: Purebred Shire and Cleveland bay mares graze on the Neillsville Stock Farm, with haystacks, barn, and a large stripped tree in the center.
Photograph

Augusta Steers

Date: 1895
Description: Steers, possibly a shorthorn variety, graze on a fenced-in pasture on the farm of Chas. Silkworth six miles from Augusta. Trees and a large house stand on ...
Photograph

Shropshire Sheep

Date: 1895
Description: A view of purebred Shropshire ewes grouped together in a fenced-in pasture on the stock farm of Andrew Tainter.
Photograph

Hogs at Feeding Time

Date: 10 12 1895
Description: Forty-nine hogs at feeding time on the farm of William Miller. The hogs are eleven-months old and weigh approximately 260 lbs each. A wagon and horse team ...
Photograph

The Apps Farm

Date: 
Description: Hand-tinted aerial photograph of the Apps Farm in the Wild Rose vicinity.

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