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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men cutting logs with a saw powered by an International Harvester gasoline engine on the farm of Casper Kaster. |
| Date: | 11 26 1923 |
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| Description: | Farmer, possibly Walter Stange, cutting wood with a circular saw run by a 1 1/2 H.P. Type M McCormick-Deering gas engine. |
| Date: | 09 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Farmer Charles Nelson, carries a pail in front of the door to his barn. His 245 acre farm was southwest of Lake Wingra near Madison. It became the first pr... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of a man operating a hammer mill powered by a McCormick Super W-4 tractor in the doorway of a barn. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | R.A. Hayne on a ladder repairing a barn door. |
| Date: | 08 02 1903 |
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| Description: | Group of well-dressed people posing outdoors at Uncle Herman's farm. Harry Dankoler is the man in the middle holding the shutter release mechanism. On the ... |
| Date: | 08 08 1935 |
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| Description: | Men cutting firewood with a belt-driven saw powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor on the farm of Spencer Johnson. |
| Date: | 05 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Farmer cutting wood with a circular saw powered by a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
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| Description: | A crew of farm laborers take a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman offers food and drinks. They are posed in front of a reaper with the family ... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Two men sifting compost soil through a screen. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A man cutting down a compost pile with a shovel. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Workers standing beside boiling vats at a sugar mill where the sap is boiled and made into sorghum molasses. |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of farmers feeds grain into a thresher with a horse-drawn wagon nearby. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A group of men use the power take-off of a Mogul 10-20 H.P. tractor to operate a silo filler. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A farmer, standing near a barn and pitchfork for a portrait. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of workmen posing while working on concrete forms at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Their position high above the water level affords an expansive up... |
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