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Smoking Pipes on the Porch

Date: 12 1906
Description: Alexander Krueger and Henry Bigalk sitting on the floor of the front porch smoking pipes. The bag of tobacco is sitting on the ground in front of them.
Photograph

Playing Cards

Date: 12 1906
Description: Sarah Krueger and Henry Bigalk playing cards at a table set up outdoors next to the porch. Henry is smoking a pipe and has a large bottle of alcohol sticki...
Photograph

Henry Bigalk Playing Cards with Himself

Date: 12 1906
Description: Double exposure image of Henry Bigalk playing cards with himself at a table placed outside next to the porch. Alcohol bottles, cards, a mug, and a bag of t...
Photograph

Group with Tobacco Harvest

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of four men and one woman posing standing in a tobacco field next to a tobacco wagon pulled by a two horses.
Photograph

Tobacco Field

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Description: A tobacco field next to a wooden building.
Photograph

We Are Power Farmers

Date: 1924
Description: A middle-aged man stands holding an agricultural implement in a field of tobacco plants. A sign next to him reads: "We Are Power Farmers Using Fordson Trac...
Photograph

Device Controls Television at Hospital

Date: 10 23 1964
Description: View of Joe E. Miller with his head on a pillow trying out a new hand held "communication system unit, which allows him to change the channel on the telev...
Photograph

East Main Street Looking S.E.

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Description: View across East Main Street towards a row of businesses, looking southeast. From the left, the corner building has a tobacco shop with a law office above,...
Photograph

Tobacco Farm Workers

Date: 1900
Description: Group of farm workers are standing and posing in a field while threading tobacco leaves on lathes for drying. Two children and a dog are standing in the ce...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sun Prairie

Date: 12 1912
Description: Sanborn Map of Sun Prairie. The map highlights the public and parochial schools, the exhange, and church buildings, etc.
Photograph

Man Using Farmall Cub and 144 Cultivator in Tobacco Field

Date: 07 20 1948
Description: View from front of a man using a Farmall Cub and 144 cultivator in a tobacco field of Tollie E. Simonson of Readstown, Rte. 1, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Man Operating Farmall Cub in Tobacco Field

Date: 1949
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of Jules Rudie, IH dealer at Westby, Wisconsin operating a Farmall Cub in six acres of tobacco, which previous to this y...
Photograph

Man Operating Farmall Cub in Tobacco Field

Date: 1949
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Jules Rudie, IH dealer at Westby, Wisconsin operating a Farmall Cub in six acres of tobacco, which previous to this ...
Photograph

Albert Hammes and Young Helper

Date: 10 13 1978
Description: Albert Hammes, of West Salem, and his young helper standing in a field spearing picked tobacco on stakes to be dried in the barn.
Photograph

Albert Hammes in his Tobacco Field

Date: 10 13 1978
Description: Slightly elevated view of Albert Hammes, smoking a cigarette and tending to his tobacco crops. The flower tops have to be picked before harvesting to keep ...
Map or Atlas

A New Map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey

Date: 1719
Description: Map of Maryland and surrounding states. It shows the boundaries, counties, cities, towns, rivers, and bays. Mountains, forests, and swamps appear pictoria...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia Containing the Whole Province of Maryland: With Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina

Date: 1755
Description: Map of Virginia and parts of Maryland, North Carolina, and New Jersey. It shows borders, boundary lines, some Native American land, counties, cities, towns...
Postcard

Tobacco Field, Near Edgerton

Date: 1933
Description: Black and white photographic postcard (with colored sky) of farmers in a tobacco field ready for harvest. Caption reads: "Tobacco Field, Near Edgerton, Wis...
Photograph

Carl Peterson at his Desk

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Description: Carl Peterson relaxing in a rocking chair at his desk. He is smoking a pipe and gazing up at a pair of mounted deer horns holding a fishing pole and rifle....
Photograph

Drying Tobacco

Date: 1909
Description: Billy Mac spreading tobacco on a board to dry as Doc Copeland is watching from his seat on a log. Carl is sitting next to Doc.

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