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Raftsman's Series No. 1406 : Trip Finished. Pulling Out The Lumber

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses...
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Photograph

Residential Construction with Teams of Horses

Date: 08 18 1926
Description: Construction workers and early construction machinery being driven by horses in a residential neighborhood.
Photograph

Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground.
Photograph

McCormick Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: Two men are feeding corn stalks from a horse-drawn wagon into a McCormick husker-shredder.
Photograph

McCormick Improved 8-roll Husker and Shredder

Date: 01 06 1916
Description: Men feeding corn from wagons into a husker-shredder near a barn. The husker-shredder is connected to a tractor. Houses are in the background. Original capt...
Photograph

Excavating for New Building

Date: 07 1908
Description: Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store. A woman is walking on the street nearby, and a boy or man w...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Painting

Corn Shredding

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Description: Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ...
Photograph

Farmstead

Date: 1920
Description: View of a barn, farmhouse, outbuilding and tractor on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
Photograph

Raftsman's Series No. 1406 : Trip Finished. Pulling Out The Lumber - Anaglyph

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left loads lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon while a man in an apron holds the horses. There is ...
Photograph

Wagons with Cotton Seed

Date: 11 29 1915
Description: Elevated view of farmers driving horse-drawn wagons carrying cotton seed along a rural dirt road. Farm buildings are on a hill in the background.
Print

International Harvester Farm Gears

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of an International Harvester "Farm Gears" brochure. Features an illustration of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon, with a barn and farmhouse in the ...
Photograph

Post Office Square

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Description: View of the town center with shops, a church, and a horse and wagons.
Photograph

Group of Men and Boys Harvesting Corn

Date: 1900
Description: View down corn rows of field of a large group of men and boys harvesting corn stalks. Several men are filling a wagon. Behind them is a man operating a cor...
Photograph

Group of People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Two men, two women, a young boy, and a dog are posing standing in a yard in front of a frame house. There is a photographer's wagon on the left, and a box ...
Photograph

Boys and Horses

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Description: View across dirt road towards two men standing, each holding two horses, on either side of a tent. A boy is standing in the center in front of the tent, an...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

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Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
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...
Postcard

John Hahn Piano and Furniture Moving

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Description: John Hahn stands in the street near his horse-drawn cart. The side of the cart says 'John Hahn Piano & Furniture Moving'. The cart, John Hahn, and the cart...

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