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Calves in Pasture

Date: 08 1929
Description: Young dairy cows feeding in a clover pasture with farm buildings in the background.
Drawing

East Side Residence of A.A. Arnold

Date: 1877
Description: View of cattle, sheep, and pigs in a pasture on a farm. Two houses are in the distance, and a horse-drawn carriage is moving along the road on the left. Ca...
Photograph

Distant Town and Cattle Grazing

Date: 
Description: Distant view of small town surrounded by rolling grassland with cattle grazing in the foreground. Caption reads, "Birds Eye View of Lander, WYO."
Photograph

Bird's Eye View of Town

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the town with hills in the distance. In the foreground are cattle inside a fence near a cemetery with a windmill. The town is behind furth...
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.
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1920
Description: View from low hill of a stream flowing through fields. There are cows in the pasture on the right. In the distance is a bridge, road, and buildings.
Photograph

Sabin General View

Date: 
Description: View down unpaved road towards the General Store on the right, with horses and buggies and their drivers assembled out front. A man is standing on the fron...
Photograph

Cattle in a Field

Date: 1946
Description: View over fence of cattle grazing in a large, open field. In the far background is a cornfield and farm buildings along a low hill.
Photograph

Birds Eye View

Date: 1921
Description: Elevated view of Woodstock, with dwellings, farm buildings and a church. Pastures and fields surround the town.
Photograph

Village with Footbridge Built by U.S. Army Engineer Corps

Date: 1918
Description: View looking down low hill towards a narrow footbridge which crosses a small river to a village composed of wooden buildings with wooden fences. On the rig...
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...
Postcard

Busy Road near Blanchardville

Date: 
Description: Elevated photographic postcard view of a busy road near Blanchardville. Men are driving a wagon hitched to eight horses, and people are standing in the roa...
Photograph

Cows in a Pasture

Date: 
Description: Outdoor view of two cows in a field near telephone poles and a rock outcropping in the background.
Map or Atlas

A New Map of Virginia: From the Best Authorities

Date: 1762
Description: Map of Virginia and parts of Maryland. It shows borders, boundary lines, Native American tribes and land, towns, forts, roads, mountains, waterfalls, bays,...
Postcard

Bird's-Eye View of So. Germantown

Date: 1907
Description: Slightly elevated view of Germantown from across a grassy field. Caption reads: "Birdseye [sic] View of So. Germantown, Wis."
Postcard

Harvest Scene in Bostwick Valley

Date: 
Description: View from a hay field on a hill looking towards pastures and fields in a valley. Caption reads: "Harvest Scene in Bostwick Valley, La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

General View of Leon, Wis.

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view across fields towards a small town. Caption reads: "General View of Leon, Wis."
Photograph

North Lake

Date: 1892
Description: An elevated view of a gently rolling landscape with cows grazing in the middle distance. At right is a farmhouse and outbuildings. Young trees have been pl...
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 ...
Photograph

Holstein Cattle

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view across water towards Holstein cattle in a pasture. Caption from calendar: "A Holstein dairy herd — Polk county. Wisconsin's fame as America's...

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