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Roscoe Malone in the Old Spring House

Date: 02 25 1954
Description: Roscoe Malone kneels at the spring in the basement at his house, The Old Spring House at 5042 Lake Mendota Drive. In the middle of the basement floor is a ...
Photograph

School at Germantown

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior of a schoolhouse with a hand-pump water well and flagpole in front.
Photograph

Algerian Children

Date: 08 1957
Description: Three Algerian children standing together near their home. Two of them are holding hands. Behind them is a well, and piles of boxes in an alcove. Beside th...
Print

Cover of McCormick-Deering 1939 Calendar

Date: 1938
Description: "Your 1939 Calendar" published for International Harvester farm equipment dealers. The cover features a painting of the Swiss Alps.
Photograph

Exterior of Log Cabin Lodge

Date: 1936
Description: Exterior of Log Cabin Lodge on Lake Millicent, a one-story log cabin with stone foundation with two doors on the right. There is a water pump outside the c...
Photograph

Buildings at Saltillo Works

Date: 1973
Description: Buildings near International Harvester's Saltillo Works in Mexico. A donkey stands at left, and a tractor is parked in front of a building near a large, st...
Photograph

Farm Hazard: Old Wooden Pump

Date: 1926
Description: A man pumps water from an old wooden pump into a tin cup. This photo was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrat...
Photograph

Boy Retrieving Water from School Well

Date: 11 23 1915
Description: Boy retrieves water from a school well. Original caption reads: "This Old fashioned well, at Sheffield School near Union City, Tenn. is typical of the enti...
Photograph

Deteriorated Farm Building

Date: 1915
Description: Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar...
Photograph

Wishing Well

Date: 01 1983
Description: "The wishing well on the Philip and Marilyn Zingsheim property takes on a different aura with new fallen snow on a winter evening."
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View down unpaved road of a filling station. Along the side of the station on the left is a hand-pump, and a large tank lying on its side. Three buildings ...
Photograph

Fishing

Date: 1920
Description: Three men and a woman pose with a pole of a stringer of fish. One of the men holds his pet dog. Behind them on the left is a bathtub, hand-pump for water, ...
Photograph

Group of People Posing Near a Well

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Description: Group portrait of a man, and woman holding a small girl, posing sitting. They are surrounded by three girls and three boys standing near a well.
Photograph

Group of People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Three people are standing in front of a frame house which is at the foot of a small tree-covered hill. On the left a man is standing with a team of two hor...
Photograph

People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of people posing in the yard in front of a frame house, with a porch and a hand-pump. There are three women sitting on the left, and a small...
Photograph

People Posing in Front of Log House

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Description: View across lawn of group posing in front of a log house, which has two large windows on either side of the open door. A man and woman are sitting in chair...
Photograph

Group in Front of Log Buildings

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Description: Group posing in yard with log buildings in the background. In the center a woman is sitting, and a young girl and small boy are standing next to her. In th...
Photograph

Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Lillian Simonson, Altrusa Club member and Marquette School principal, is shown giving a preview of a wishing well to youths Jerry Bailey and Janet Dahl.
Photograph

Eagle Corners School

Date: 1932
Description: Students and their teacher, Gladys Hofseth (back row, far right), pose outside Eagle Corners School. The school is a wood frame building with an enclosed p...
Postcard

Commercial Hotel

Date: 06 28 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of the exterior of the three-story Commercial Hotel. The building has a false front. Two women stand on the balcony and two men stand...

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