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Farm and Rural Homestead

Date: 1890
Description: Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression.
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Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
Description: View down hill towards two men in the foreground standing on top of a stone fence looking out onto fields where two or three men are working with two wagon...
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Andrew Thompson's House

Date: 
Description: View, looking south of a man wearing a hat in a horse-drawn buggy on a rural lane in Mount Horeb. On the right a man and three children are standing near t...
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Threshing Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View across field of threshing scene, with steam-powered threshing machine and horse-drawn wagons. A large group of workers pose with men in suits. On the ...
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Grain Binder on a Hill

Date: 1915
Description: A farmer uses a McCormick grain binder on a hillside with a windmill in the background.
Painting

View of Jacob Bennett Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Painting of farm depicting farmhouse, barn, and windmill. Located east of Gotham on Old Lone Rock Road.
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Looking East

Date: 1916
Description: View down unpaved street. A group of men, women, and children pose on the porch of a post office. Near them a man and boy pose on a pickup truck which is p...
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Horses and Sheep

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Description: Elevated view over sheep pen towards men displaying several horses in a yard among farm buildings, a frame house and a windmill. Three women and two young ...
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Seneca Street Scene

Date: 1912
Description: View down unpaved street with a school building on the left on the opposite side of the street. A board sidewalk leads to a two-story dwelling on the right...
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Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Landscape view down field towards a horse-drawn binder in a field with harvested grain. A man near the road is standing in a horse-drawn wagon on the left....
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: People are gathered in a field near a man using a horse-drawn mower in a field. There are horse-drawn buggies and farm buildings on the left.
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Large Group of Men with Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: View across field of large group of men with horse-drawn mowers. There is a man on horseback in the center foreground. Men are on horseback and on wagons a...
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Man on Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across partially harvested cornfield of a man on a horse-drawn corn binder. Behind the horses is a tower structure, perhaps for a windmill. The cornfi...
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Landscape View of People and Farm

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards people posing standing. In the center is a binder, and on the right are men on a wagon. Down the hill in the background is a farm...
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Unidentified Residence and People

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a family at their farm. The family is posing on the far right in the yard. On the left near the house is a windmill with a sign f...
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Man with Horse-Drawn Binder in Hilly Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. Shocks of grain are arranged in lines across the field. On top of the hill in...
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Mining Town

Date: 1922
Description: Elevated view from hill looking down on a mining town surrounded by wooded hills. There are wooden sidewalks between the houses. In the background on the l...
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Harvesting Scene

Date: 
Description: Elevated view towards seven men working with teams of horses to harvest on the rolling hills, perhaps in the Great Plains. Farm buildings are in the backgr...

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