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| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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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| Description: | Woman sitting on a Farmall B tractor with attached corn planter talking with International Harvester dealers Henry Brosnahan, Manager (left), and Jack Call... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women and children posing in a field with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Catherine, Stanley and Sofia Pranica, a Polish family, harvesting cucumbers. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of one competitor parading her animal for the judges at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition, while Alice in Dairylan... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A man and two women gather grain bundled by a grain binder at work in the background. |
| Date: | 08 26 1917 |
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| Description: | Barn, silos and cows at a farm. There are men attending to the cows, while the women and children are attending to the milk cans. |
| Date: | 05 15 1928 |
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| Description: | Poster or display board illustrating the differences between "old" and "new" methods of harvesting grain. Includes images illustrating harvesting methods b... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A cameraman films a man stooping to pick cotton while other people are looking on from the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two women dressed as farmers stand next to a Deering push binder with a cigar and a pipe in their mouths. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Chester Sowerby is sitting on a Farmall H tractor while her husband is standing in the field beside her. The original caption reads: "Mrs. Chester Sow... |
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