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Hogs and Chickens

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Description: Group of hogs eating corn cobs strewn on the ground, with chickens walking among them. In the background are stacks of hay, and beyond is a field and line ...
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Hogs Feeding near Corn Wagons

Date: 1932
Description: Hogs feed near two corn wagons in an open field on the Charles Knuth farm near Vinton, Iowa. On the reverse is written, "This is a level farm and the land ...
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Scene at Fred Coleman Farm — Tornado

Date: 09 21 1931
Description: View from road of storm damage to a farm. The barn roof has blown off. Men are working on the roof, which has exposed roof timbers. In the foreground are t...
Photograph

Hogs

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

The Universal Food Chopper

Date: 1899
Description: A reproduction of an ad or counter card for the Universal Food Chopper. Text on the image reads, "The Universal Food Chopper, and a few of the things it ch...
Photograph

Wisconsin Pacemaker Pork Program

Date: 01 25 1960
Description: The Madison area scored top awards at the first Wisconsin Pacemaker Pork program held during the opening of Farm and Home Week. At left is Gilbert Mueller,...
Print

Eugene's Menu

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Description: Front cover and back insert page from Eugene's restaurant in the Juneau Hotel, with an orange lobster holding a blue card in its tail with images of a stee...
Photograph

Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition

Date: 10 17 1960
Description: Twelve-year-old Larry Beck, Jr. from Ixonia slapping the purple ribbon on his meat-type Poland China barrow after winning the grand champion honor at the S...
Print

Pre-Industrial Pig Dinner Menu

Date: 03 07 2009
Description: One-page menu for a special event dinner centered around the pre-industrial (heritage breed) pig. Presented by the Underground Food Collective and Morren F...
Print

Pre-Industrial Pig Dinner Menu

Date: 04 25 2009
Description: One-page menu for a pre-industrial (heritage breed) pig dinner, presented by Underground Food Collective. Features a profile view of a pig standing on a re...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Foldout Card — Inside

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Description: Foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. This scene depicts a young boy in a farmyard playing a flute while sitting on the side of a water ...
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson, Talcott & Co. Catalog Back Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Back cover of catalog featuring two illustrations with the title: "A Pointer." The top illustration, captioned: "Union is Strength," shows a dog lying in t...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 05 12 1902
Description: View down Main Street, with businesses on both sides. A row of trees acts like a median along the road. Ernst Goetsch is standing in the middle of the road...
Historical Object

133 - Joy Camps Barbecue

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. Two of the photographs show a large pig carcass on a spit over a grilling area. Another photo...
Photograph

Greased Pig Chase at the Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1922
Description: View down unpaved Main Street of a group of men racing after a pig during the Hustler Harvest Festival. On the right is the Nash Service Station and the M....
Photograph

Costa Rican Family

Date: 1902
Description: A Costa Rican family standing outside their home or farm building along a fence. A pig stands in the foreground with a board tied around its neck sniffing ...
Photograph

A Sow and Her Litter in a Pig Pen

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Description: View across fence towards a pigpen, towards a sow and piglets. In the background are trees and a hill in the distance.
Photograph

Feeder Pigs

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Description: View of a pig pen with a large group of pigs. Identified as feeder pigs, with straw winter shelters for young stock. The straw frames were on poles with st...
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Pigs in the Snow

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Description: Pigs outdoors in a snow-covered pen in front of a wooden shack and fence.

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