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| Date: | 1874 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Swimming in the lake with the Cliff House in background. Cliff House was a resort hotel built shortly after 1872, when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. Bo... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| 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. ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | At the beginning of his journey to America, Hölzlhuber passed through the English Channel and viewed the cliffs at Dover. "We passed Beachy Head, as this p... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Flour and grist mill built on Green Lake Prairie and later moved to Alto. It stood about 50 feet tall and 24 feet wide. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Wind powered stone grist mill. Two men stand on a wood balcony near the open doorway of the windmill. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Jacob Gasser family standing in front of the farmhouse at Tower Rock Farm. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture, looking southeast. Fences and fields are in the foreground. There are two windmills near buildings ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A man papers a barn with posters for the "Black River Falls Fair, September 7, 8, 9 & 10." |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer operating a horse-drawn binder in a field, while cattle are grazing nearby. A farmhouse, several farm buildings and a windmill are in the distance... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer is sitting on a mower pulled by two horses in the middle of a field. Two other men appear to be herding cattle along a path beyond the field. A fa... |
| 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: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees towards the west of Upper Campus at the University of Wisconsin. Washburn Observatory, with windmills behind it, is on the right n... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the front and east side of the Bennett Studio when it was new, showing the skylight and the revolving print house. There is a large windmill be... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Front and west side of Bennett Studio. There is a windmill behind the building. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road of farm buildings and a windmill. In the background in front of a barn men stand with horses near a fence. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man with his back turned is posing on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. On his left are four females, including a woman, one younger woman... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Florentina Krueger holding twin babies Edgar and Jennie Krueger. |
| Date: | 09 09 1895 |
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| Description: | View across field of two men leaning against an enormous stack of grain on the farm of August Schmidt. There are many more stacks of grain leading into the... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A flock of purebred Shropshire ewes standing near a fence on the farm of Geo. Martin. In the background is a farmhouse with laundry on the line, a farm bui... |
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