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Bull Along Roadside

Date: 08 1929
Description: Bull standing along a rural road with farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Better tether him out than for him not to get pasture."
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Fence Post Removal

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

Date: 08 1983
Description: "Late in the day, the cows return for milking on the Batzler farm."
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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 ...
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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.
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The Apps Farm

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

Date: 1977
Description: A group of four Jersey Cows at the Jersey Land dairy farm. Two of the cows are grazing and two have looked up at the photographer. A truck, additional cows...
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Lorena Feldmann

Date: 1931
Description: Lorena Feldmann, 13, hoes in the garden at her family's farm. She is somewhat overdressed for the task in a light coat, white stockings and dress shoes. A ...
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Pig Lot at the Farm

Date: 09 09 2014
Description: View of a pasture on the Quinney farm, with a pig in the foreground on the left, and another pig eating from a metal feeder. A grain wagon is sitting at th...
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Farm Scenery

Date: 
Description: View along roadside toward a farm. A person is driving a tractor loaded with hay towards a red barn further down the road behind trees.
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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.
Postcard

Greetings from Spring Green

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green, Wis." A country road curves to the left around a farm. On the right are a tree, fields and a fence with ...
Postcard

Greetings from Spring Green

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green." On the reverse it reads: "Grazing in Contentment." A herd of mostly Holstein cows in a pasture on the s...
Postcard

Western Allenton

Date: 04 02 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Western Allenton, Wis." An unpaved road with deep ruts, fences and trees. There are farm buildings on the right, a pasture on the lef...
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"Walnut Grove" — Homestead of the McCormick Family

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Description: View of Walnut Grove. Caption reads: "'Walnut Grove' — Homestead of the McCormick Family, Rockbridge Co., VA." In the foreground men are working to harvest...

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