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Alexander Lake's Nursery

Date: 1896
Description: A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons...
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1900
Description: Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry...
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Cranberry Pickers

Date: 1905
Description: Winnebago Indians and Black River Falls townspeople harvesting cranberries.
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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Silo Under Construction

Date: 1900
Description: Three men pose next to a silo that is under construction, with wood scaffolding around it.
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Barn Raising

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building.
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Farmer Feeding Hogs

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Description: A farmer is carrying buckets, presumably to feed his hogs that are following him in the pen.
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Men Plowing Field

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Description: Probably a first plowing of land after the trees and stumps have been removed by grubbing. Many roots still remain, and the "breaking plow" turns a wide fu...
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Man with Plow Driving Team

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Description: A man stands with a team of horses ready to plow a field.
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Farmers on Hay Wagon

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Description: Two men stand atop a hay wagon, one holding the reins of a two-horse team wearing fly-nets and one presumably holding a pitchfork. Another man stands on th...
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Group of Men With Hay Wagon

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Description: A man stands on top of a hay wagon holding the reins of a two-horse team with a child sitting at his feet. Another man and a boy also pose on the wagon pre...
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Four Men Posed in front of Hay Wagon

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Description: Four men stand in front of a hay wagon that is pulled by a two-horse team. One of these men could be H. John Dietrich.
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Man Cultivating Field

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Description: A man uses a hand cultivator in a field of what could possibly be onions.
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Farmers Threshing

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Description: Numerous farmers participate in the threshing of grain. Left is the straw stack, center is the threshing machine and wagon to haul it to the granary, and r...
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Farmers and Threshing Machine

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Description: A group of eight farmers resting on or near a wooden threshing machine.
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Two Men and Threshing Machine

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Description: Two men stand near a threshing machine.
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Blowing Grain Into Barn

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Description: A blower is attached to a steam tractor by a belt and blows grain into a barn. A man stands by the tractor while others stand on the blower near the barn.
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Threshing Crew

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Description: A team of horses working with a steam tractor and threshing machine next to conical stacks of grain.
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Threshing Crew in a Field

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Description: A crew works with a steam tractor and threshing machinery in a field.
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Men Working With Tractor and Threshing Machinery

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Description: A crew of men inspect a tractor next to a barn, while other men work with a threshing machine in the background.

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