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Photograph

African American Farmer Hauling Corn to Market

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Description: Farmer hauling corn to market with an ox-driven wagon. Original caption notes that oxen were used considerably in the south for motive power.
Painting

Bridge Over Mississippi River

Date: 1891
Description: A painting of the new (as of 1891) bridge over the Mississippi River in La Crosse. The bridge was built by the Clinton Bridge Co. Captions read: "North sid...
Print

View of Sparta, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: View on North Water Street, showing the building in which the Bank of Sparta was founded. A man is walking beside a oxen pulling a covered wagon.
Photograph

Ox Team Hauling Wool

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Description: A man and child stand near an ox team hauling wagons loaded with bags of wool in New Mexico. Caption reads: "Ox Team Hauling Wool, New Mexico."
Photograph

Luva Street Scene

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Description: View down Luva Street in San Juan Puerto Rico. Oxen carry a large cart down a narrow street, while people move along the sidewalks.
Photograph

Cart and Automobile

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Description: View of an man standing with an ox-drawn cart near a man sitting in an automobile.
Photograph

Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: View of Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade.
Photograph

Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade

Date: 06 03 1901
Description: View of Pawnee Bill's Wild West Parade, looking west down Main Street.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 201-206

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Description: Even the slow, dry, hungry engines,
digging
what would be the best of times,
cannot help but leave behind them
a restlessness unchanging as bef...
Photograph

Oxmobile "Pioneer"

Date: 1875
Description: Team of oxen pulling a wagon in front of Schuette Brothers store grain warehouse on a muddy Jay Street. The man standing with the oxen is likely Fred Wilke...
Photograph

Team of Oxen in Luck

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Description: Team of oxen pulling a sled loaded with large sacks on a snowy street in front of a General Merchandise Dry Goods store. Two men stand at the back of the s...
Photograph

Beer Wagon on Sherman Avenue

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Description: Elevated view of a beer wagon pulled by two oxen standing on Sherman Avenue. A delivery man with a keg of beer on his shoulder is standing in the street ne...
Photograph

Serbian Refugees

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Description: Serbian refugees walking next to soldiers and wagons filled with supplies headed for the front.
Photograph

Flour Seller

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Description: Galician flour seller from Tarnow.
Photograph

Supply Transport through Constantinople

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Description: Supply of food and weapons is transported through Constantinople during the early days of the war.
Photograph

Serbia

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Description: Street scene in a Serbian village.
Photograph

Skutari

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Description: Oxcarts for transporting military supplies to Albania, in Skutari.
Photograph

Ox Cart Drawing Bales of Sisal

Date: 1900
Description: Ox cart drawing bales of sisal near a large building.

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