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Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
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Beauty Queen Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1947
Description: A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw...
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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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Belle Case La Follette Addressing Farmers

Date: 1915
Description: Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a group of farmers during a tour on the Chautauqua circuit during which she frequent...
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Waiting For Pure Fresh Milk

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph of a posed scene showing a woman milking a cow as two other women stand waiting at an open barn door. On the left a man at a hand-pump is behin...
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Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
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Farmers in Field with Mower and Hay Rake

Date: 1900
Description: Group of farmers posing in a field with a McCormick horse-drawn mower and hay rake. The scene appears to be in France.
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Woman on Tractor Talks with International Harvester Dealers

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Description: Woman sitting on a Farmall B tractor with attached corn planter talking with International Harvester dealers Henry Brosnahan, Manager (left), and Jack Call...
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Farm Wife Brings Lunch to Her Husband in the Field

Date: 1970
Description: Ingrid Bengtson bringing lunch to the field to help her husband, Norman, get the planting done faster. They are having lunch on top of the McCormick Intern...
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Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ...
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Woman on a Tractor in a Field

Date: 1928
Description: Elevated view of a woman in a field on a McCormick-Deering 15-30 or 10-20 tractor with attached disk harrow.
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Farm Family Poses with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men, women and children posing in a field with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder.
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Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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Harvest in Ireland

Date: 1903
Description: A woman, child, dog, and group of men are gathered around a harvester in a field. The caption reads: "Harvester History. Harvest of 1903. Jones Lever Bin...
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I'm A Farmer's Wife

Date: 04 06 1973
Description: Women picketing at a shopping center, urging others to boycott meat. One woman is wearing a sign on her back that reads: "I'm a farmer's wife."
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Mrs. Endres Feeding Chickens

Date: 1925
Description: Mrs. John Endres feeding the chickens in the farmyard with her dog.
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Washing Windows

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground.
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Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

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Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
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Addison and Sarah White's Home

Date: 1876
Description: Riley, Springdale Township, Dane Co. Four men and four women around a table in yard in front of two-story Greek Revival frame house with a Madison Mutual s...

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