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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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Fitchburg Depot and Train

Date: 1910
Description: Winter scene of Fitchburg depot with train at platform, and a group of men and women waiting outdoors.
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Deering Binder in Farm Yard

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Description: Farm family standing in front of their house, while on the right a man is sitting on a Deering binder, and two men on the left and right are looking on. At...
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Farmall Tractor Parade

Date: 1941
Description: Farmall H and M tractors driven in a parade through a downtown street. The tractors are driven by two women and two men. One of the men has a small child o...
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Hill's Department Store Employees Party

Date: 05 29 1933
Description: Group portrait of Hill's Dry Goods Store employees at dinner dance party, Schenk's Hall, 2028 Atwood Avenue. A woman sitting in the center, a woman standin...
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Farmyard with Implements

Date: 1878
Description: Family in farmyard with farm implements, including a grain seeder and a threshing machine. Men are standing on top of hay in a wagon. Farm buildings and a ...
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Family in Carriages with Barn

Date: 1878
Description: Barnyard, with what appears to be a pigyard littered with corncobs. It is enclosed with a solid board fence and has slop troughs made from hollowed logs. A...
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Halvor Nerison Hauge's Farm

Date: 1874
Description: People in a field standing around a mower, with a farmstead and windmill in background, looking west. Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) purchased the farm i...
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Family with Windmill and House

Date: 1870
Description: Family and baby carriage next to wooden tower windmill with house behind them. A.L. Dahl, landscape photographer, wagon, left.
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Herman Amberg Preus and Caroline Keyser Preus House

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Description: Wood frame house with carpenter's lace and family seated and standing to side of house in background. A windmill and small barn with cupola is in the right...
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Men Working with Hay near Farmstead

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Description: Men in a grain field are piling hay or straw onto a wagon as one man stands on top of the pile. On the left is a windmill on a wooden tower and behind are ...
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Large Group near Farmyard and Windmill

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Description: A large group of men, women and children stand in front of an elaborate wood and stone fence. A horse and carriage stand at the left and behind them is a w...
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Large Group near Farmyard and Windmill

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Description: A large group of men, women and children stands in front of an elaborate wood and stone fence. A horse and carriage stand at the left and behind them a win...
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Family near Windmill

Date: 1870
Description: Sixteen people, including four small children dressed in white, are posed in front of a picket fence standing before a small frame house. A windmill and ho...
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Abraham C. Martin and Family

Date: 1871
Description: Springfield Township, Dane County (Section 22) corner of Fischer Road and Highway 12, Wi. Abraham C. Martin, a farmer and dairyman with his family in fron...
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Young Couples at the Grand Regatta

Date: 1877
Description: Well-dressed young couples sit in the foreground. In the background is a picket fence running along a busy road with horse and buggy traffic. Further on is...
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Women on Horses

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of family in yard. Two women are posing on horses, one man has a rifle, and another man has a hoe. A woman is sitting in front of the porch ...
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Men Amid Tobacco Plants

Date: 1873
Description: Two men are posed amid tobacco plants. Behind the men are a windmill and barn. In the center background a woman and a child stand near tall stacks of hay. ...
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University Heights Houses

Date: 1902
Description: View of University Heights, including the Maurer House, the Buell House, and the Stevens House. In the foreground are Gertrude, Margaret, Harry, and Helen ...
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Horse-Drawn Reaper with Windmill

Date: 1905
Description: Two men, two women and a boy harvesting grain with an early McCormick reaper. A windmill is in the background. The photograph may have been a staged re-ena...

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