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Camp Randall Field

Date: 1906
Description: Elevated view of Camp Randall Field from the top of Bascom Hall, with University Heights in the background. A crowd is in the stands at the stadium, and a ...
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Harvest Scene

Date: 1936
Description: Shocks of oats form long rows in a large, rolling field. A single tree is standing in the field. On the reverse of the print is written: "Greenfield near L...
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Sauk County Farm

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view of a large farm in a valley. Caption reads: "Prosperous Sauk County Dairy farm — nestling in a fertile valley between timber-clad hills. Phot...
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Terraced Farm Land

Date: 1948
Description: Aerial view of terraced farm land with shocks of harvested corn. A farm is in the valley and trees cover much of the hills.
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Door County Church

Date: 1950
Description: A church with a dark steeple is set on top of a hill above a field with shocks of grain. Trees are on the left and right.
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Rural Scene

Date: 1950
Description: Rural scene of a cluster of farm buildings with a pond in the foreground. On the horizon, trees cover the hills.
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Near Wyoming Valley

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin farm scene, south of Lone Rock, but in Iowa County. A church can be seen on the left. The hills are the south bluffs of the Wisconsin River.
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Holy Hill

Date: 1950
Description: Dramatic view of Holy Hill against a sky full of clouds. In the foreground, cows are grazing in fenced fields.
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Contour Farming

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of a farm and surrounding fields farmed with the contour method. Shocks of grain dot several of the fields.
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Wisconsin Ribbon of Concrete

Date: 11 1951
Description: Aerial view of US Highway 14 southeast of La Crosse descending into Mormon Coulee. The original caption of the print, which is undated, describes the road ...
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Harvest

Date: 1952
Description: A man driving a tractor, pulling a chopper filling a forage wagon, over gently rolling hills.
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Pleasant Valley

Date: 1953
Description: View from hill towards a farm nestled in a valley. Trees dot the slopes, and woods cover the tops of the hills.
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Modern Tepees

Date: 1954
Description: Corn shocks stand in a foggy field and trees cover a rise in the background.
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Holy Hill

Date: 1963
Description: Elevated view of the Kettle Moraine area from Holy Hill.
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Snowmobile Tracery

Date: 1972
Description: Snowmobile tracks form a pattern in the snow on a farm. Farm buildings are on the left and trees are along a ridge on the right.
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Racing the Storm

Date: 1976
Description: Farmers head for the barn with a load of hay bales as a storm looms overhead. A hay baler is hitched between the tractor and the wagon. Farm buildings are ...
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For the Birds

Date: 01 1977
Description: Dried sunflowers along a barbed wire fence in a field of snow.
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Farmstead Under Large Tree

Date: 08 1977
Description: A farmstead under a large tree, with fields and wooded hills in the background.
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Country Church

Date: 02 1979
Description: A cow looks for food in a snowy field in front of a church. The field had been planted with corn.
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Nelson Dewey State Park

Date: 
Description: Elevated view from bluff of a house in Cassville surrounded by bluffs, trees and farmland. Railroad tracks run between the crops and the trees, and the Mis...

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