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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustrations of Champion brand horse-drawn mowers, reapers, grain binders and hay rakes, as well as an illustration of ...
Photograph

Cowboy on a Bucking Bronco

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Description: Ranch hand holding a crop high above his head on a bucking horse. In the distance are trees and shrubs. Caption reads: "'A Cowboy on Bucking Bronco.'"
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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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Saddling and Packing the Horses

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Description: Three ranch hands saddling and packing a horse in an enclosed fence area. One man has his foot pushing against the horse while tightening the rope. Three o...
Print

Rural Route No. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, with a woman in front of a house retrieving mail from a mailbox and a horse-drawn U.S. R.F.D. ma...
Photograph

Rear View of Man on Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man on horse-drawn mower. There is a fence and a road on the left. The mower blade is partially lifted to pass over a tree stump.
Photograph

Elevated View of Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated landscape view of a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field with harvested grain on a hill. Trees, hills and farm buildings are in the backgroun...
Photograph

Young Girl Standing on Push Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man is sitting behind a team of horses which is behind a McCormick push binder in a field. A young girl is standing on the push binder.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Man using a horse-drawn mower along the edge of a rocky path. There are split-rail fences along the sides of the path. A pile of lumber is behind the team ...
Photograph

Horse-Powered Push Binder Headers

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men in a field with a horse-powered push binder header. Three men are standing in a horse-drawn wagon on the right. The sides of the wagon are slo...
Postcard

Lovers Lane

Date: 08 14 1929
Description: Text on front reads: "Lovers Lane, Sauk City, Wis." An unpaved, rural road with a wooden guard rail on both sides. A sign reads: "Automobiles Go Slow." Beh...

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