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Alexander Lake's Nursery

Date: 1896
Description: A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons...
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Young Man Pitching Manure

Date: 1917
Description: Young man outside a barn pitching piles of manure. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Silo Special Trip. Manure, J.A. Butler."
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Scouts on Patrol, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers on patrol in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. One soldier is walking along a dirt road carrying a large automat...
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Group of People with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1895
Description: A man with his back turned is posing on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. On his left are four females, including a woman, one younger woman...
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People in Front of Farm Buildings

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Description: View across barnyard of men and boys displaying horses. Two boys are posing on top of a heavily loaded wagon, possibly sacks of potatoes, in front of a bar...
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Elevated view of men and boys operating a steam tractor used for belt-driven threshing machinery. Farm buildings are on the right, and one has a thatched r...
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Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
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Bringing in the Herd

Date: 1932
Description: Russell, left, and Ira Wepking pose as they pause from bringing in the dairy cows; they have taken off their hats, which are on the ground. A small dog sta...
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Men Planting Seedlings

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Description: Man and a boy posing standing and holding white pine seedlings in a field. Four men are crouching in a row planting the seedlings in a field. In the backgr...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Front and back cover of The Buckeye Harvesting Machinery catalog. Features on the front, at the bottom, an oval-framed scene of two men using agricultural ...
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Two Young Men with Two Horse-Drawn Binders

Date: 1900
Description: View of two young men with two horse-drawn binders in a field. There is a wooden fence and trees behind them.
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. Two men and a young boy are standing in the background holding sheaves of ...
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Young Boy on Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a young man on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. A man is standing near the horses. Farm buildings are in the distance down a hill ...
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Men Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards two men and a young boy standing in a field near two men using a horse-drawn McCormick binder. One of the men is riding one of the h...
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Young Boy Driving Farmall H

Date: 1945
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a young boy driving a Farmall H which is pulling a disk harrow through a field at the farm of Leslie Winne.
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Dairying — Boys Stock Judging

Date: 1915
Description: Langlade County Fair, Wisconsin. By means of these contests the interest of the boys in better stock is intensified. A pure bred registered bull calf was g...
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Swimming, Country Style

Date: 07 1950
Description: Swimming country style on a farm in the Kettle Moraine State Forest. Two boys are swimming in a large wooden cattle tank and three young children are perch...
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Moving Vilas Park Zoo Alligators to Outside Pen

Date: 06 06 1960
Description: Zoo keeper Almar Baker drags a baby alligator from its winter pen in the lion house basement at the Vilas Park Zoo.
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Flood at Dates Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line as water rushes down a lane in the pasture in ...

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