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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 03 04 1932 |
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| Description: | Piper Brothers farm scene, 4718 Odana Road near Midvale. |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance. |
| Date: | 08 23 1917 |
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| Description: | Man, possibly Joseph Brown, attending to an automobile on the road between Waukesha and Ionsman. Rural landscape and farm in the background. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of men in suits, presumably foremen or supervisors, and several men in work clothes, are in a grain field. Most of the men in suits are either sitt... |
| Date: | 10 13 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in the bed of an International D-15 motor truck surrounded by cattle and pigs at a feed trough. Barns and a windmill are in the background. The... |
| Date: | 10 03 1960 |
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| Description: | View from field of the W. Blise farm. A barn with two silos, a windmill and a large house are visible. A stone wall landscapes the area in front of the hou... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A car and driver stop on a country road near Mt. Horeb at the site of the Holton Tavern. A windmill and tree stand on the site and there is debris at the ... |
| Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd around horses during livestock judging. In the background are fields, a road, power lines, and in the far distance along the horizon... |
| Date: | 05 30 1964 |
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| Description: | Landscape view from field of a rolling countryside. A small cheese factory resides on a slope, with a tree, a windmill, two cars and a tractor near an outb... |
| Date: | 05 1980 |
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| Description: | A short black and white pole marks where a road converges with a state highway that stretches to the horizon. In the mid-distance before a hill is a railro... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over plowed field and dirt road toward a farm with a farmhouse, barn, silo and other outbuildings residing in a sloping valley. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from distance of a man standing in a field with fences and farm buildings behind him. A horse-drawn corn binder is standing in the field, and cows, pi... |
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| Description: | A large windmill in a rural setting. A man and horse-drawn vehicle are parked in front of the windmill. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Poor Farm on the grounds of the Winnebago County Asylum. There is a large barn, silo, windmill, and the roof of a large building in the ba... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A farmer with a team of two horses working with an elevator or silo filler near farm buildings and a silo. A Titan stationary engine is powering the elevat... |
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| Description: | A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July. |
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| Description: | A farm family takes part in milking time. The mother carries a milk can and a stripping bucket while the boy pushes milk cans on a cart toward the barn. Th... |
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| Description: | A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank... |
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