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Young Boy Operating Corn Binder

Date: 1895
Description: View towards a young boy operating a corn binder pulled by two horses. The binder is moving along a row of corn. An empty carriage or buggy is sitting in a...
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Man Operating Mower with Horse

Date: 1895
Description: Left side view from front of a young man on a horse-drawn McCormick mower (or dump rake) in a field.
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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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Harvesting Hay with Hay Stacker

Date: 1895
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men harvesting hay. Two men are standing on top of a haystack with pitchforks filled with hay. A wooden counter-weighted hay stac...
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School Class at Merrimac

Date: 1890
Description: A large class stands outside a school. Front row, left to right: Stella Nuzum, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mabel Devlin, Mary Devlin, unknown, Alice Odekirk...
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Herold Team of the Milwaukee Turners

Date: 09 21 1886
Description: Twenty-seven young men and George Brosius posing outdoors with sporting equipment. The young men are dressed in short sleeved shirts and pants (possibly an...
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Young Aldo Leopold

Date: 1899
Description: A young Aldo Leopold posing proudly with his bamboo fishing pole, stringer of perch and a dog. The family was on vacation in the Cheneaux Islands, near Mac...
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Prospect Point #99

Date: 1869
Description: Two girls in long dresses on a rock formation. The river and far shoreline is in the background. Text on left reads: "A Visit to Devil's Lake, Sauk County,...
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Group of Women and Girls in the Woods

Date: 1892
Description: Six young women are posing on a ladder in a woods. There is a young girl in front of them. A woman and a young girl are standing off to the side.
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Three Seated Farm Girls

Date: 1895
Description: Three farm girls, probably of German extraction, seated on a bench, playing with three kids (young goats) in their laps. There are buildings in the backgro...
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Three Young People

Date: 1896
Description: Snapshot of a young man with two young women chatting on Wisconsin Street. The scene is near the Grand Avenue bridge which appears in the background.
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Lounging in Rattlesnake Hollow

Date: 1895
Description: Young man sitting on a large rock called the “Devil's Chair” in Rattlesnake Hollow.
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Swimmers in Lake Monona

Date: 1897
Description: Original title reads, "Bathers assemble [swimmers in Lake Monona]." Women and men, wearing suits, hats, and long dresses, are standing near the lake shorel...
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Turvill Shop

Date: 1898
Description: View up dirt road towards a young man standing near the Turvill shop. The tree-lined road leads up a slope towards another building under trees.
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Wreckage

Date: 07 07 1885
Description: Stereograph of the wreckage of a building in the aftermath of a cyclone. A group of men and boys are posing standing or sitting for the photograph. In the ...
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President McKinley at West Superior

Date: 1899
Description: Stereograph of President McKinley speaking to a large crowd from a stage decorated with bunting. In the background are buildings and train cars. Caption re...
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An Ingenious Affair

Date: 1898
Description: A woman and a boy are sailing the boat named Islander on Archibald Lake. There is a raft in the foreground. Caption reads: "An Ingenious Affair."
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George Brumder, Sons and Friends

Date: 1890
Description: An outdoor group portrait of George Brumder, sitting in a bent willow chair at far left; Dr. Herman Duemling, sitting in the center, and Julius Andrae, sit...
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Herman Brumder

Date: 1895
Description: Herman Otto Brumder (1880-1950) modeling a skirted men's swimsuit on a pier at Pine Lake.
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Looking West

Date: 03 04 1881
Description: Several people are standing on a large snow bank on 8th Street, looking north after the big snowstorm of 1881. Signs hanging over the sidewalk attached to ...

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