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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: | 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... |
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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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A girl and a boy doing field work beside a wagon. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A farmer, standing near a barn and pitchfork for a portrait. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Men cutting and gathering grain by hand. One man appears to be holding a scythe, or possibly a cradle. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | L.M. Meyer filling a trough with food for cows inside a barn at Rock Creek Farm. The original caption reads: "L.M. Meyer, farm manager, feeding green alfal... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | L.M. Meyer feeding cows inside a barn at Rock Creek Farm. The original caption reads: "L.M. Meyer, farm manager, feeding green alfalfa ensilage to cows." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea... |
| Date: | 09 30 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men loading the back of an International truck with hay in a field on the George Clindaniel farm. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across cutover land of a man or young boy driving a horse-drawn mower. There is a tall tree trunk behind the horses. Another man or young boy is stand... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Several men working on silaging operation with a husker and shredder in front of a barn. Men are standing on wagons moving grain, and full bags are leaning... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men, probably Gleb Ilyin (left) and C.O. Johnson, standing near a Farmall M tractor, some cows and a stack of hay. Ilyin is described in an original ca... |
| Date: | 09 28 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men loading manure into a horse-drawn manure spreader. |
| Date: | 08 08 1908 |
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| Description: | Men loading horse-drawn manure spreaders on farm land. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of two men loading a horse-drawn manure spreader (possibly a Kemp) in a field. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Man shoveling manure while standing on a manure spreader or farm wagon. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Men bale hay using an IHC hay press or baling press. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men bale hay from a large stack into an IHC hay press or baling press. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men are standing on a large pile of hay using pitchforks to load hay into a hay press operated by two other men. |
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