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Building a Barn

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Description: View across field towards two men posing standing on the frame of a barn under construction next to a large haystack.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: Exterior portrait of a man posed standing on a tractor running threshing machinery in the distance next to a group of men and a haystack.
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Plowing Scene

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Description: View across field towards a man sitting on a plow pulled by a team of four horses.
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Steam Tractor

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Description: Two men are standing and working on a large steam tractor outdoors in a field.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: A group of men are standing and working around a thresher.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: View towards six men posing standing in and on top of a large haystack. In front of the haystack is a man standing on a large pile of hay on a wagon near t...
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Horses Pulling a Reaper

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Description: View across yard towards a man standing on the back of a reaper pulled by a team of two horses on a road.
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Chickens in a Yard

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Description: Chickens in a yard in front of wooden building on the left, and on the right a sideways double-exposure view of trees. The shadow of the photographer is on...
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Men Harvesting

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Description: View across field towards four men standing in a field and holding tools in a recently reaped field.
Postcard

Loading Hay into a Silo

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Description: View across barnyard towards five men on the William Fiebelkorn farm working with a wagon and conveyor belt to load hay into a silo. The barn has a stone f...
Postcard

The "Drummond District," Rust-Owen Lumber Co.

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view of an open hay field with stacks of hay. The farmer in the right foreground is working on a haystack. Caption reads: "The 'Drumm...
Postcard

Barn with Cows in Yard Near Earl, Wis.

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard of a barn, with two men and cows in the barnyard. There are patches of snow on the ground.
Photograph

Snow Scene

Date: 03 09 1936
Description: Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro...
Photograph

Cultivated Field

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Description: View of a cultivated field, with a fence post in the left foreground. A group of people are working in the field in the far background.
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Digging Out Train Tracks

Date: 03 1881
Description: Winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad right of way. Between F...
Photograph

Digging Out Train Tracks

Date: 03 1881
Description: A winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm in Racine County. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad righ...
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Brick Structure Under Construction

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Description: A group of workers are posing next to a brick structure under construction. Snow is on the ground.
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Gebhardt's Walking Cranberry Dredge

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Description: View of large machinery with four workmen standing on it. Identified as Gebhardt's Walking Cranberry Dredge.
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Ott Family

Date: 1919
Description: The extended Ott family posing in front of a woodpile of split and cut wood stacked against a log barn located on the Ott farm. The man is adjusting his gl...
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Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1940
Description: Gustave Ott (1871-1954) and Anna Ott (1871-1954) feeding a large flock of multi-colored chickens on their farm. Gustave is carrying a kettle and Anna is ho...

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