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Automobile Accident on County Trunk M

Date: 04 15 1934
Description: Onlookers surveying damage from a fatal two-car collision. The view is looking south on County Trunk Highway M, between Speedway Road and Middleton. In the...
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Farm and Rural Homestead

Date: 1890
Description: Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression.
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Bluff Scenery

Date: 1924
Description: Long view of bluffs with a fence and a farm in the foreground.
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International "Red Baby" Truck Leaving Rural Farmstead

Date: 1923
Description: International "Red Baby" (model S) truck loaded with binder twine(?) and a stationary engine leaving a rural farmstead. In the background a woman holding a...
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A Full Dozen

Date: 09 1904
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger playfully hunting for eggs.
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Winding Farm Road

Date: 05 12 1963
Description: Winding farm road and distant farm with tree-covered hill in the background.
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Landscape with Barn

Date: 06 1967
Description: Landscape with brilliantly lighted barn in last rays of sunlight.
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Early Morning at Railroad Crossing

Date: 10 03 1960
Description: Early morning at a railroad crossing on County Highway A, with houses and a barn in the distance.
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African American Farm Laborer at Stovall's Plantation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall.
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Rocky Field

Date: 11 12 1906
Description: "An annual crop of rocks" at the George A. Nelson Farm.
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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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Barn at Hillside Home School

Date: 
Description: Landscape, including a barn, at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Distant View of Field and Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: View across a field towards barns and a house surrounded by fences.
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Distant View of Field and Farmstead

Date: 
Description: Farm field in foreground with barn, other buildings and house in background surrounded by wood fences.
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Niels-Larsen Granary in Deerfield

Date: 1976
Description: Niels-Larsen granary on its original site, before its removal to Old World Wisconsin, Eagle, Wis;, where it was erected on the Norwegian site.
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Barn Raising in Cross Plains

Date: 
Description: Workers pose on the frame of a barn they are building.
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Erosion on McPeak Farm

Date: 1928
Description: T. N19 R. 4W about section 19, McPeak farm. A 50 foot deep ravine is seen rapidly eating its way toward farm buildings.
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Midway Barns

Date: 1945
Description: View of the Midway Barns, constructed in 1938 on the farmland adjoining Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and architectural school complex. Taliesin...
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U.S. Highway 12 and 16

Date: 1926
Description: Car on a dirt highway west of Hustler. The highway is U.S. 12 and 16.
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Philip Berndt's Farm

Date: 
Description: Hand-colored photograph of a Wisconsin farm.

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