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Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
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Cradling Grain in Field

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Description: The photographer posing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Krueger, cradling and raking grain in a field. She is wearing a dress, and a scarf over her head. ...
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The Sowerbys with a Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Chester Sowerby is sitting on a Farmall H tractor while her husband is standing in the field beside her. The original caption reads: "Mrs. Chester Sow...
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Kruegers and Goetsches

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor group portrait of August and Mary Krueger and William and Bertha (Krueger) Goetsch. The two women are sitting in chairs, while their husbands are s...
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Riding in a Buggy

Date: 06 03 1905
Description: Albert Gennerman and his wife, Amanda, are sitting in a horse-drawn buggy in front of their home. On the front porch, an unidentified man is leaning agains...
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Norwegian Farmers

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Description: A farming couple pose together on the steps of a building with a sod roof in Nordfjord country. In the background is a lake and a mountain on the far shore...
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Home of Edward Buenning

Date: 1897
Description: Edward Buenning and his wife posing in front of their home and farm buildings.
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Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1940
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...

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