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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a farmer baling hay with a Farmall C tractor and baler. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmer harvesting grain with a Farmall H tractor and harvester-thresher (combine). |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmer plowing a field with a McCormick WD-6 standard diesel tractor and attached plow. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man on a Farmall Super A tractor following a curving line of furrows in a field with a cultivator. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of farmer Axel Anderson in his barnyard on a Farmall H tractor with a hemp turning machine. The hemp turning machine was made by the... |
| Date: | 04 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmer O.A. Scipio cleaning the concrete hog feeding floor on his farm with a McCormick Farmall Cub tractor and attached leveling and grading blade. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of farmer Ed Frey at the controls of a McCormick-Deering 123-SP combine on his 1400 acre farm. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a farmer cultivating a vegetable field with a McCormick Farmall C tractor with attached cultivator. Farm buildings are in the bac... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmer harvesting corn with a McCormick no. 24 two-row corn-picker and farm wagon ("barge wagon") attached to McCormick Farmall H tractor. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a farmer with a straw hat working a field using a Farmall M tractor with disc harrow against a bright blue sky strewn with fluffy white... |
| Date: | 11 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of employees of the Madison News Agency, distributors of magazines and newspapers, in front of the business at 446 W. Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | People are standing in the middle of a flock of turkeys at the Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Abandoned mill, formerly called the Modena Roller Mills. The first mill was built in 1865 (now torn down). |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a Madison to Prairie du Chien stage coach in 1848. The coach is driven by two men and drawn by four horses as it passes a farm field separated f... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cow grazing in a pasture. Taken from The Writer's Program to be used as an illustration for "Wisconsin: a Guide to the Badger State." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Gustave Ott (1871-1954) and Anna Ott (1871-1954) feeding a large flock of multi-colored chickens on their farm. Gustave is carrying a kettle and Anna is ho... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man wading and fishing in the Brule River. He is wearing waders, a plaid shirt, hat and creel, and has netted a fish. In the background is a forest and p... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Black Earth Creek in the winter, with the banks covered with snow. Large trees are leaning over the creek on the right bank. In the background are a fence,... |
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