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Tollef Gjermundsen Farmstead

Date: 1874
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...
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Farmers in Wheat Field with Cradle Scythe

Date: 
Description: Farmers standing in a wheat field. The men are holding a hand-operated cradle scythe and a rake. A frame house is in the background along with several farm...
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Grain Binder on a Hill

Date: 1915
Description: A farmer uses a McCormick grain binder on a hillside with a windmill in the background.
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E.B. Fred Hall

Date: 1954
Description: E.B. Fred Hall, the first home of the bacteriology department, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A person is shoveling dirt in front of the bu...
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Trying to Ride a Bucking Bronco

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a ranch hand riding a bucking horse. To the left is a man or boy standing near the stone wall enclosure. In the background are hi...
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McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man driving a team of horses to pull a McCormick grain binder through a field. In the far background are several large buildings.
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Boy Practicing Cattle Roping

Date: 1962
Description: 6-year-old Kirk Hanna uses a lasso to practice cattle roping on a pair of bull horns affixed to a log in a barnyard. A horse is tied to a fence on the righ...
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Man Operating Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 05 13 1926
Description: A man operates a manure spreader pulled by two horses in a field. There is a dog standing in the foreground on the right. The original caption reads: "Bern...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 235-241

Date: 
Description: New land cut out by real imaginary lines
based in older spirit courses
lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet
Photograph

Farmers Waiting to Ship Harvest

Date: 09 1902
Description: Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks...
Book or Pamphlet

The Old Reliable Sweepstakes Catalog Cover

Date: 1873
Description: Chromolithograph featuring a view through a stone arch of two men in a field with a Sweepstakes threshing machine.
Photograph

Hatfield Dam Construction

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of the construction site of a dam across a river. Identified as the construction of the Hatfield dam across the Black River in 1907 to 1909.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Landscape view down field towards a horse-drawn binder in a field with harvested grain. A man near the road is standing in a horse-drawn wagon on the left....
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Group of People in Field with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a woman standing with two children. In the field a man is using a horse-drawn binder. A barn and farmhouse are in the background.
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Landscape View of Farm with Man on Mower

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man on a horse-drawn mower. Behind him on the left men are working on and around a large haystack with horses. Behind a split-r...
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Road and Stone Wall

Date: 1900
Description: View across road towards stone walls, with a gate, which run along the road, and through a field towards the left. A man is using a horse-drawn plow in the...
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CCC Camp in Winter

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view, from the South Bluff, of the CCC camp at Devil's Lake State Park. There is a rock outcropping in the foreground on the left. South Shore Roa...
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Norris Dam

Date: 1934
Description: Elevated, panoramic view of the Norris Dam.
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Wheeler Dam

Date: 12 13 1938
Description: Elevated, panoramic view of the Wheeler Dam from the south side of the Tennessee River.

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