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Family Group in Front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1890
Description: Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos...
Painting

Boyhood Home of Hamlin Garland

Date: 1937
Description: Boyhood home of Hamlin Garland.
Photograph

Forest Nursery

Date: 1951
Description: Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery.
Photograph

Woman Carrying Water to Farmhouse

Date: 04 1923
Description: Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter.
Photograph

Carl A. Peterson Fishing

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home.
Photograph

Harvesting Wheat with International 8-16 Tractor and Binders

Date: 06 14 1921
Description: Farmers harvesting wheat with an International 8-16 HP kerosene tractor and two Deering seven foot binders on the farm of W.P. Ridley in Maury County. Thre...
Photograph

Farmer Cultivates Field with Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1959
Description: View towards a farmer on a Farmall Cub tractor with attached cultivator.
Photograph

Farmstead with McCormick Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Scenic view of rural farmstead with horse-drawn McCormick grain binder and wagon in field in front of farmhouse.
Photograph

Woman on Tractor Talks with International Harvester Dealers

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Description: Woman sitting on a Farmall B tractor with attached corn planter talking with International Harvester dealers Henry Brosnahan, Manager (left), and Jack Call...
Photograph

Manitowoc, Wis.

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t...
Photograph

Droster Farm

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior of the Droster farm located on Felland Road. The house was built in 1854.
Photograph

Farmstead near Waterway

Date: 1900
Description: Rural scene of farmstead with a river or stream (?) in the background. The farm is bounded by a barbed wire fence, and there is a utility pole on the bank ...
Photograph

Man with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man is farming a hillside using a McCormick grain binder led by a team of two horses.
Photograph

Rock Scenery

Date: 
Description: View of house and farm buildings in Ableman with a rocky hill in the background.
Photograph

Rural Houses in Winter

Date: 
Description: View through trees of snow-covered houses next to a field with hills in the background.
Photograph

Workers Raking Hay

Date: 1937
Description: Man with a horse-drawn hay rake in a field. Other field workers gather hay by hand in the background. Original caption reads, "raking heavy timothy hay int...
Photograph

The Main Entrance — Devi-Bara Resort

Date: 1931
Description: View of the entrance to the Devi-Bara Resort. There is sign on the fence that reads, "Saddle Horses - 1/2 block" and another sign on a tree denoting that t...
Photograph

Rich Valley Looking Down Mill Creek Valley

Date: 
Description: Rich Valley looking down at Mill Creek Valley. There are several farmhouses among the fields.
Postcard

Buff Creek Farm

Date: 06 19 1915
Description: Photographic postcard view of Buff Creek Farm. The farmhouse is on the left and the barn and outbuildings are on the right. A man and an automobile are nea...
Photograph

Tony's Place

Date: 1936
Description: View across field of a two-story stone house with a wood barn near Cable Lake.

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