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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two hunters check their shotguns while their hunting dogs wait in the field. |
| Date: | 07 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men, W.M. Smith and W.H.D., rest on a large log over Little Bear Creek. |
| Date: | 08 1896 |
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| Description: | Jessie Turville Thwaites, wife of Reuben Gold Thwaites, picks wildflowers. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Krueger family husking corn. From right to left are: Mary, Sarah, August, Florentina, and Jennie Krueger. A dog is lying on the ground... |
| Date: | 09 1904 |
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| Description: | Edgar and Jennie Krueger playfully hunting for eggs. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A view of the William Ruggles farm with an old farm wagon in the foreground. A number of farm buildings are in the background, with a fence and hill on the... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Walworth County Fair. A large crowd gathers around a carousel. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men sit at the reins of a horse-drawn United States mail sleigh which ran from Sturgeon Bay to Egg Harbor. Another man is kneeling inside the sleigh ne... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman in a dress is talking to two men in hats who are riding in a horse and buggy. They are in a field near a tree. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | School friends Ethel and Eleanor fence-sit on a summer day. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Signs are advertising sideline businesses along a rural road. There is a large sign that reads: "For Sale Belgian Carrier Pigeons," and a smaller sign that... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A tree-lined, rural road in the Kickapoo Valley of southwestern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A winter view of "The Three Chimneys" in the St. Peter sandstone formation. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A farm and brook in Southern Wisconsin. Several trees hang over the brook along with a trace of snow. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men, a young boy, and two women relax by a tree near a stream. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Church, several houses and field from a hill. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a farm in mid-winter. Snow blankets the ground and some of the buildings. An orchard is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Buildings at "Little Norway." From left to right: tool house, Norway house, Haugen homestead. The wagon in foreground is a kubberulle; the wheels are sec... |
| Date: | 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Robert Palzer, owner of the farm, is using a Model 5-C John Deere portable farm elevator to convey hybrid corn to the kernel remover in the building. The w... |
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