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Carcajou Pasteur

Date: 1920
Description: View of a rocky pasture with some small, distant farm buildings, and a few farm animals grazing.
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Carcajou Farm and Grazing Cattle

Date: 1920
Description: View of grazing cattle, and pigs, in a field, with a farmhouse in the background.
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Seymour Brooks Residence

Date: 1873
Description: Downtown East Troy with the Seymour Brooks residence. Caption reads: "Res. of Seymour brooks, Sec 4 Fast Troy TP Wis Breeder of Derham Cattle American Meri...
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East Side Residence of A.A. Arnold

Date: 1877
Description: View of cattle, sheep, and pigs in a pasture on a farm. Two houses are in the distance, and a horse-drawn carriage is moving along the road on the left. Ca...
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Girls Feeding Pigs

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Description: Three young women feed the pigs on a Portage County farm, a livestock project under the direction of an agricultural extension representative. The caption...
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Pigs at the Trough

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Description: Pigs eating at a trough. The sow eats at the left, taking up most of the scene, while her nine offspring (piglets) eat or stand to the right. Caption reads...
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That Feed Won't Do

Date: 1860
Description: Soldier-farmer, "Jeffy" (Jefferson) Davis, in full uniform with a straw hat is giving feed (bonds) to a sow (the Confederacy). The sow is in turn feeding i...
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Vernon Valley Farm Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Vernon Valley Farm, a breeder of Percheron and coach horses, shorthorn cattle, Berkshire hogs, Bronze turkeys, and Wyandotte chickens from Mt...
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Plankinton Packing Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Plankinton Packing Company, a pork and beef packer and provision dealer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Includes an elevated view of the company b...
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Burnett & Pratt Billhead

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Description: Billhead of Burnett & Pratt, "dealers in fresh, salt and smoked meats, fish and game in season," of River Falls, Wisconsin, with a group of livestock, incl...
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Sand Hill Supply Company Wagon

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Description: View of two men standing near a Sand Hill Supply Company mule-drawn Conestoga-type wagon with a slaughtered pig hanging on the back. Published by C.L. Haye...
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Large Hog in Farmyard

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Description: A large hog in a farmyard being admired by five men standing behind him.
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Horse-Drawn Hearse

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Description: Black Earth hearse drawn by horses. Chris Schanel, the Black Earth undertaker, is driving. In the background on the right a small pig is running near a fen...
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Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
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Hogs

Date: 1933
Description: Three hogs feed on the Larson farm. There are farm wagons in the background and snow on the ground.
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Pig Examination

Date: 1910
Description: A group of men at the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic Education stand outside near a barn observing four large pigs. Some of the men st...

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