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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background. |
| Date: | 09 30 1933 |
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| Description: | A gas station in a Trachte building on the corner of Highway 51 (Monona Drive) and Highway 30 (Cottage Grove Road). "Johnson Gasoline," and "Defiance Spark... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mogul 30-60 kerosene tractor pulling an elevating grader in road construction project. The project was part of the "good roads movement" in Missouri. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Worker leveling gravel with a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor and a no. 7 angle dozer at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm and testing facility. |
| Date: | 05 12 1963 |
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| Description: | Winding farm road and distant farm with tree-covered hill in the background. |
| Date: | 10 03 1960 |
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| Description: | Early morning at a railroad crossing on County Highway A, with houses and a barn in the distance. |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | Bull standing along a rural road with farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Better tether him out than for him not to get pasture." |
| Date: | 10 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray Haupt farm near Madison, taken for Wisconsin Power & Light. |
| Date: | 04 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Conference of Seventh Day Adventists farm buildings including barns, three silos and a corn crib on Duborg Road off of Highway 16 west of Columbu... |
| Date: | 11 01 1937 |
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| Description: | View from the road of the State Experimental Game and Fur Farm. |
| Date: | 11 13 1933 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright's 1929 L-29 Cord Phaeton automobile and an overturned Choles Floral Company delivery truck, driven by Frost Choles, at an accident scene... |
| Date: | 09 14 1932 |
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| Description: | View across road towards the Bowman dairy and farm on Fish Hatchery Road. |
| Date: | 03 04 1932 |
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| Description: | Piper Brothers farm scene, 4718 Odana Road near Midvale. |
| Date: | 10 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Accident scene on Highway 51, rural area. Caption at bottom reads: "High #51 — Looking West — Northwest — October 20, 1931 2:00 P.M." |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View of Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
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| Description: | View from hill over a valley dotted with farmsteads and a meandering stream in the foreground. A group of three or four people are posing at the opposite s... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, ha... |
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