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Men with Plow

Date: 1873
Description: Group portrait of men gathered in a farmyard, posed behind two plows. The plow in front has Argyle, Wisc. from Michalson Implement Company inscribed on the...
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George Thompson and Family

Date: 1892
Description: George "Uncle Riley" Thompson and his wife and children posing on their farm. The family are, from left to right: Bessie, mother Julia holding Rosie, Mamie...
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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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Group of People in Farmyard

Date: 1917
Description: A group of people under a tree in a farmyard, with possibly a lake in the background. Two women, with heavy netting on their hats, hold luggage. A toddler ...
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Elevatin' Ears

Date: 08 1949
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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Potato Harvest

Date: 1950
Description: A man is harvesting potatoes using a John Deere tractor and a John Deere single row potato harvester.
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Deer Friend

Date: 1950
Description: A deer is standing next to a man as he is boiling maple sap over a fire pit in the woods at Blue Farm. Steam and smoke are rising up into the air. On the r...
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First Hay

Date: 1952
Description: A woman is driving a horse-drawn hay wagon pulling a hay loader on the William Houser Farm. A child and a man, each with a hay fork, are riding on the load...
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Bringing in the Logs

Date: 1955
Description: Two men hauling logs in a sled on a snow-covered farm. Farm buildings are in the distance, with trees on the left and right in the foreground.
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Path to the Barn

Date: 1958
Description: A man carrying a bucket from a barn walks behind a dog along a path shoveled through snow.
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Feeding the Thresher

Date: 1959
Description: Paul Lembcke and his son Roy threshing grain on their farm at harvest time.
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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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Hay Loader

Date: 1976
Description: View from inside a barn towards a farmer moving hay bales by hand out of the wide door. Snow is on the ground, and trees, buildings, a fence are in the bac...

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