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Michael Baltus Family in Front of New Home

Date: 1895
Description: Michael Baltus family posing in front of their log cabin two miles east of Auburndale Station, Wood County, with a new frame house under construction nearb...
Postcard

Milkmaid with Cow

Date: 1911
Description: Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads."
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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...
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Reverend A. Jacobsen and Family

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t...
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Austin Western Grader

Date: 06 16 1926
Description: State Highway Commission worker operating an Austin Western grader built around a McCormick-Deering tractor. The worker is leveling road #2 east of Segourn...
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Tractor Running Belt-Driven Thresher

Date: 1914
Description: International Harvester tractor (likely a friction drive) running a belt-driven husker-shredder in the snow-covered yard of a farm.
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Experimental Deering New Ideal Binder and Mogul 8-16 Tractor

Date: 03 1918
Description: Man operating a Deering New Ideal binder pulled by a Mogul 8-16 HP tractor outside an International Harvester factory. The man is sitting in the seat of th...
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Young Boys Posed with Pumpkins and Watermelons

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Description: Group of young boys, all wearing hats, posing in front of a building with an assortment of pumpkins and watermelons.
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Farm Family Posing in Yard of Home with Horse-Drawn Mower

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Description: Farm family posing around a house and yard, with the patriarch sitting in the seat of a mower behind two horses.
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French Farmers Posing with McCormick Farm Equipment

Date: 1900
Description: Farmers standing in a farm yard with a McCormick binder pulled by oxen and a horse-drawn mower. The farm appears to be in France.
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Criticism of a John Deere Grain Binder

Date: 04 23 1915
Description: John Deere grain binder in the yard outside an International Harvester factory(?). The binder has signs attached to it indicating "deficiencies" in design ...
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Henry Bigalk and Emil Kuney (Keune)

Date: 1906
Description: Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga...
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Home Economics — Farm Home and Yard

Date: 05 1925
Description: Farm house and yard "showing farmyard equipment too close to the front porch." The yard contains a stationary engine, saw, lumber, and homemade buildings.
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Fourteen Foot Tomato Plant

Date: 09 27 1936
Description: Mr. Liebenberg standing on a ladder measuring a 14 foot tomato plant growing in his garden. Mrs. Liebenberg is standing beside the plant.
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Skavlem Family and Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ...
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Residence of William Arnon Henry

Date: 1900
Description: View of the University of Wisconsin residence of William Arnon Henry, Dean of Agriculture, 10 Babcock Drive with Lake Mendota in the background.
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Planting Trees with International L-120 Truck

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a gardener planting ornamental trees in front of a house. The trees were transported in an International L-120 truck.
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Farmer Stacking Hay in Barn

Date: 07 14 1926
Description: Farmer loading hay from a wagon into a large barn using a winch. There are other farm buildings, a water tower, and a farmhouse in the background.
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Residential Housing

Date: 1936
Description: View down road of mass-produced residential housing with farm in background.
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Farmall F-10 Tractor

Date: 03 17 1932
Description: Engineering photograph of a Farmall F-10 tractor parked outside a factory building.

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