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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | European farmers and young boy harvesting grain with horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field in front of a large mansion or institutional complex. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Farmer John Atkins grinding corn with a belt-driven feed grinder powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall tractor. Mr. Atkins' son and daughter look on. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Exterior stereograph of the Polk County Press Office, with three men standing near the entrance, and three children sitting on the left on the board sidewa... |
| Date: | 07 1937 |
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| Description: | Picking strawberries on the farm of Earl Leverich in Monroe County. The Leverich family were leaders in commercial fruit growing in Wisconsin and Earl Lev... |
| Date: | 09 1953 |
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| Description: | A young woman shows her entry in the Central Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition. |
| Date: | 08 1914 |
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| Description: | John Van Ness and his niece and nephew removing weeds from their "truck patch." Mr. Van Ness is using a hoe. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a giant pig in a pen. A man, standing in the pen, is holding a giant ear of corn for the pig to eat. Numerous ears of oversized corn litter... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Steam-powered pile driver and centrifugal pump (in shed) at work at the Wisconsin River dam site. Men and children are watching the work. |
| Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
| Date: | 08 13 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men, one of them possibly H.R. Clark, sitting with two boys on a tractor. All of them are wearing overalls and floppy hats. |
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| Description: | Portrait of an unidentified farm family in a fenced yard. |
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| Description: | Man working a horse-pulled plow, with a young boy walking at his side. |
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| Description: | A farmer and a small boy, possibly a son, stand outdoors holding hands. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. A group of people, including two adults and four children, are looking on. The femal... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer is sitting on a horse-drawn mower in a field of grain, while a boy is looking on from the side. Both the man and boy are wearing hats and suspende... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man operates a horse-drawn self-rake reaper in a field while another follows behind with a rake. A girl approaches from the side with a jug in her hand. |
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