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Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well

Date: 04 1923
Description: A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background.
Photograph

Woman Carrying Water to Farmhouse

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

Man on Reynolds Tedder

Date: 1919
Description: Man on a Reynolds hay tedder pulled by team of work horses. Another man stands supervising. In the far background beyond a fence are two separate farmstead...
Photograph

Old Homestead at Bonnie View Resort

Date: 1930
Description: Cottage, with a spinning wheel on the porch, at the Bonnie View Resort near Devil's Lake.
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Lone Road

Date: 06 1980
Description: "There are some imposing hills on Lone Road. The camera faces north."
Postcard

Feeding the Chicken and Geese

Date: 1900
Description: An unidentified woman standing near a shed is feeding chickens and geese in the barnyard.
Photograph

Klondike Flapjacks

Date: 05 1968
Description: A Boy Scout or Scout Leader, with "Madison Wis 101" on his shoulder patch, making pancakes in a skillet over an open fire. Beside the skillet is a coffee p...
Photograph

Effective Advertising, Cooking Maple Syrup

Date: 1956
Description: A man is cooking maple syrup over a wood fire among trees. Steam is billowing from the kettle.

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