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Farm Windmill

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Description: View from field of a cluster of farm outbuildings, including a windmill. Smoke is coming out of a smokestack attached to the back of the windmill.
Painting

A Farm Auction

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Description: An auctioneer, a clerk, and a helper stand on a stage on a farm conducting an auction as potential bidders surround them. Farming equipment and other items...
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Children Climbing Windmill

Date: 04 23 1926
Description: Two girls climb the base of a windmill surrounded by farm buildings.
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Irrigation Ditch

Date: 1917
Description: Irrigation ditch with a silo and farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Silo Special Trip; irrigation ditch, Mrs. Carolin...
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Silo and Barn

Date: 1920
Description: Farm buildings, including a barn, silo and windmill. There is a man dressed in overalls and a wide-brimmed hat standing near an automobile. Caption reads: ...
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Orchard in Winter

Date: 02 1924
Description: Elevated view of fruit trees, farm buildings, houses, and a windmill with pump house.
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Barn Raising

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Description: Group of men working on a barn raising, showing some of the workers up on the frame securing the timbers, and other workers carrying more timbers into posi...
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Tractor Belt-Driving Ensilage Cutter

Date: 12 29 1928
Description: A tractor in the foreground is belt-driving an ensilage cutter near a barn. Men are working on wagons to feed the cutter. There is a windmill behind the tr...
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Foundation

Date: 1905
Description: Two men holding trowels are standing on an improvised scaffold made of wooden kegs and planks while working on a cement block foundation wall. Two other me...

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