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Farmall 350 Tractor with Baler and Wagon

Date: 1957
Description: Color photograph, slightly elevated, of two farmers baling hay with a McCormick Farmall 350 tractor, a McCormick baler and a wagon.
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Post Office and Johnson's Store

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Description: View of the post office and Johnson's Store, located in a rural setting. A man carries goods in a horse-drawn wagon. Published by E. Vosseller Stationer.
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Scene near Blue River

Date: 1913
Description: A man drives a team of horses pulling a wagon across a bridge. The man is standing atop the barreled goods, holding the reins. There is dung on the road.
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Stock Day

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Description: Elevated view of the street on Stock Day. Horses and wagons are traveling down the street. The Bridgeport Hotel and the post office are on the right side. ...
Photograph

Stock Day

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Description: Elevated view of horses and wagons being prepared on Stock Day. There is a steep hill with trees behind farm buildings.
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Wagon in Rural Turnout

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Description: View of a steer pulling a wagon, on which a boy is seated. Published by Marshall Emmons.
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Dairy Barn and Silo

Date: 1920
Description: Dairy barn with two silos on the right side. There is a wagon in the front of the barn and a ladder which leads up into the second floor. Hay is visible in...
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Wagon Ride on Country Road

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Description: Rear view of group of men and women riding down a road in a wagon. The wagon has wooden benches (pews?) in it for passengers. Wooded hills can be seen in t...
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General Merchandise Store

Date: 1909
Description: Six men, a young boy and a woman stand outside on the porch and road in front of the General Store. There is a sign for "Star Brand Shoes" posted on the ro...
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Rolling Ground General Store

Date: 1924
Description: View down path towards a general store with a gas pump on the porch near a sign for Red Crown Gasoline. Two men are working on a car parked in front. Behin...
Photograph

Springvalle General Store

Date: 1922
Description: View from road of the general store, a two-story wood frame building in a rural area. A man and a child are standing near the door. Another child is sittin...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 370-376

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Description: The earth is never still, but speaks her lovers
lying twined among the roots of grasses, lying long
stretched out from hill to hill

There wher...
Photograph

Farmers Waiting to Load Their Goods

Date: 1898
Description: Farmers with their loads waiting to ship on train number 40 at Colfax, Wisconsin. "An everyday occurrence at 3:50 pm during September and October."
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Farmers Waiting to Ship Harvest

Date: 09 1902
Description: Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks...
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Farm Home of Thomas Convey

Date: 1907
Description: Farm home of Thomas Convey family, at or near Ridgeway. In the foreground, two men stand near a horse-drawn wagon. Five women are standing on a stone wall ...
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Men Planting Seedlings

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Description: Man and a boy posing standing and holding white pine seedlings in a field. Four men are crouching in a row planting the seedlings in a field. In the backgr...
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Threshing Scene

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Description: View towards six men posing standing in and on top of a large haystack. In front of the haystack is a man standing on a large pile of hay on a wagon near t...
Postcard

Loading Hay into a Silo

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Description: View across barnyard towards five men on the William Fiebelkorn farm working with a wagon and conveyor belt to load hay into a silo. The barn has a stone f...
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Men Along a Roadside

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Description: View towards a group of men near a horse-drawn wagon. One man is kneeling and holding a gun and dog. Behind him six men are posing standing near a wagon. ...
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Kenyon School

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Description: View across lawn towards a brick school house with children and a woman posing standing on the front steps. There is a man posing sitting in a wagon pulled...

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