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| Date: | 07 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Farmer driving a horse-drawn Osborne grain binder near a barn. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Veterinarian J.A. 'Doc" Hines checking a cow for pregnancy. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a man harvesting corn with a McCormick corn picker on International Harvester's experimental farm. |
| Date: | 02 01 1938 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor parked in front of a barn while farmer A.B. Wicks grinds corn with a McCormick-Deering feed grinder. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Farmer grinding corn in a barn with a belt-driven McCormick-Deering feed grinder powered by a Farmall tractor. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | View of the Ole Wettlesen barnyard. A man is standing and holding a pail in the center near a lineback cow. People, cattle, sheep, horses, a barn, haysta... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Men and a boy are in a barnyard with sheep and cattle. |
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| Description: | Men are in a farmyard (possibly at a sorghum mill) with horses hitched to a central-rig. A haystack, barn, wagons and farm machinery are in the background. |
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| Description: | Barn raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's home. Crew members can be seen mortising freshly hewn timbers with a hand-operated boring machine. Men are also seen ... |
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| Description: | A work crew raising the bents of a barn framing system using pike poles. A valley is in the background beyond the hill where the barn is being constructed. |
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| Description: | Dahl took a series of pictures of barn raisings, one of many community activities he photographed. Here the crew is installing a top plate on the side wall... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A boy and three men are in a field in the foreground with a manual rake reaper and other harvesting tools. Various farmstead buildings, a fence and Lombard... |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | In 1845, Ole Wettlesen and his wife Thorbjor and family left Laardal, Telemark, Norway, for America, eventually settling in Dane County. There, Ole establi... |
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| Description: | A man is standing in a field with corn and other crops, with a windmill on a wooden tower and a barn in the background. Two carriages are also visible, one... |
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| Description: | A view of the back of the Dahl residence, a second empire style house seen from across a field with a barn and other outbuildings in the background. In the... |
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| Description: | Men in field with tobacco on wagon, and a barn and an outbuilding in the background. This is Lewis Dahl's tobacco harvest in back of his father's home (Nel... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Group of barn raising participants posed in front of the structure in progress. |
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| Description: | The country meets the city as a "Milwaukee Journal" newsboy admires the calf entered in the animal judging competition by a young boy from the country. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A farmer shows off his percheron colt at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the turn of the century when a farmer's livelihood was dependent on his horses, the d... |
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