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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Waupun on the Rock River. There is an inset at top center of "Althouse, Wheeler & Co., Windmills and Pumps." |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | This map of Cedarburg is a bird's-eye map with an inset of Cedarburg Brewery. Relief is shown pictorially and the map includes an index to buildings. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Sheep and cattle are within a split-rail fence. Two men are behind the fence standing on the roof of a shade shelter for the cattle. Haystacks and a windmi... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Tollef Gjermundsen farm. Men on horseback stand in a row in the foreground, and a stone house, windmill and barn are in the background. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Family and baby carriage next to wooden tower windmill with house behind them. A.L. Dahl, landscape photographer, wagon, left. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of upright and wing house with adjacent windmill structure made in Batavia, Illinois, by U.S. Wind Eng. Pump Co. The barn has a stone foundation. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A cultivated field with cows by a fence. Behind is a frame house, windmill, barn with cupola, shed and small barn with grain stacks. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A farmyard, with a windmill and boy standing on top. Included in the view is a barn, upright and wing frame house. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 10 1879 |
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| Description: | Crowd at the Camp Randall fairgrounds watching a horse race, part of that year's Wisconsin State Fair. Carriages and people are near buildings on the left,... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| 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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