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| Date: | 1896 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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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| Description: | Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| 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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| Description: | A farmer is carrying buckets, presumably to feed his hogs that are following him in the pen. |
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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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| Description: | A man stands with a team of horses ready to plow a 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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| 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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| 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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| Description: | A group of men stand eating and drinking. A little girl also stands with the men while they are on their break from threshing. |
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| Description: | Teams of men and horses work in a field. Two smokestacks and additional agricultural machinery are visible in the background. |
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| Description: | A farmer leans on a steam tractor in a field. |
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| Description: | Two men sit atop a steam tractor that is pulling logs. |
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| Description: | A farmer displays two horses in a farmyard. |
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| Description: | A farmer drives a team of three horses hitched to a manure spreader. Another man stands next to the team, holding an additional horse by its reins. |
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| Description: | Five women, two seated in a carriage hitched to a horse and three on foot pose in a field with a farmer. |
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| Description: | A young boy calls a dog in a farmyard with cattle in the background. A shadow is cast next to the boy, possibly Van Schaick's. |
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