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Filter: Year of 1950-1959
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Farmer spreading manure in a field with a Farmall H tractor and manure spreader (possibly a model 100). |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Men operating a Farmall Super M-TA tractor, a forage harvester and an International R-150 truck. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of an African American farmer cultivating a cotton field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super MD tractor. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a farmer plowing with a Farmall Super M tractor. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Color photograph, slightly elevated, of two farmers baling hay with a McCormick Farmall 350 tractor, a McCormick baler and a wagon. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Farmer on a Farmall 560 tractor with disk harrow pausing to talk to another man in a field in front of a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View towards a farmer on a Farmall Cub tractor with attached cultivator. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Right side view of a young man riding a Farmall Super C tractor with attached cultivator in a field. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Hong Kong police with jeep who followed journalist Cecil Brown as he traveled along the border with Communist China. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Soldiers of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution stand next to a pile of wreckage in a rural area holding guns. |
| Date: | 06 15 1950 |
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| Description: | View of outhouses in a wooded area. |
| Date: | 10 09 1957 |
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| Description: | View of the John Castle dairy farm, located off North Sherman Avenue near Darwin Road. The barn has its wall boards removed revealing a wood beam frame, a ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a hill towards a valley with several farms and fields. A forested hill is in the far background. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This map shows the locations of many scenic areas in La Crosse, Vernon, Crawford, Richland, Grant, and Iowa Counties. On the front side of the map, there i... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a farm in a valley, with harvested corn in corn shocks in the field. Tree-lined hills are in the background. Text on reverse of imag... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | The Schuepbach Farm off East Clayton Road, with a view of the Wisconsin State Capitol in the far distance. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Illustrated postcard view of the exterior of Bancroft Dairy, and an inset at top left of Charmany Farms. Near the entrance of the dairy are chairs set arou... |
| Date: | 06 15 1957 |
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| Description: | A packed crowd of children are watching from behind a white fence towards an arena of horseback riders. A large speaker is on a pole for announcements. ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a factory near Marshfield. Railroad tracks are on the right. Caption reads: "Berg Equipment Co. Plant, Marshfield, Wisonsin." |
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