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| Date: | 1892 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Bertha Gesell feeding a calf from a pan. |
| 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: | 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: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man is harvesting potatoes using a John Deere tractor and a John Deere single row potato harvester. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Terrace on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Unveiled in 1909, the Lincoln Statue was created by sculptor Adolf Weinman of Hodgenville, K... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| Date: | 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Albert Roszek, wearing overalls, posing with farm machinery. There is a barn in the background. |
| Date: | 06 1973 |
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| Description: | A farm worker shearing a sheep in a shed to harvest its wool. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | A woman is leaning on a gate and gazing at a flock of geese in a farmyard. In the background are farm buildings and farmhouse with trees. |
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| Description: | A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the... |
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