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Cranberry Ditches

Date: 1935
Description: Digging flood ditches on a cranberry marsh near Phillips.
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Vel Phillips Stands near Child Sitting on Watermelons

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a brown and blue patterned dress is holding a bouquet of flowers. She stands near a young girl wearing a dress sitting on a pile of w...
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Vel Phillips Giving Child Flowers

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a brown and blue patterned dress is standing and holding a bouquet of flowers. A young girl sitting on a pile of watermelons holds a ...
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Vel Phillips and Child with Flowers

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips is in a brown and blue patterned dress standing and holding a bouquet of flowers up to a young girls' nose. The girl is holding a plaque in he...
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Vel Phillips with Man and Two Children

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a brown and blue patterned dress, is standing on the right holding a bouquet of flowers. A unidentified man is standing on the left, ...
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Dr. P. Phillips Company Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Two men load the back of a bed of an International Model C-35 truck with wooden crates full of citrus fruit, while Walter Phillips stands near the driver's...
Postcard

Good Land Company Advertisement

Date: 
Description: Postcard advertising the Good Land Company with a photograph of a farm and information for "Homeseekers, Farmers and Investors."
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Vel Phillips with People and Watermelons

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, standing on right, is in a brown and blue patterned buba (a Yoruba blouse) and holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to her (second from right) ...
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A Young Girl Playing Outside

Date: 1898
Description: A young girl, Helen Phillips, stands in a yard near a fence behind a wooden chair. She reaches though the decorative panels on the back of the chair and gr...
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Truck in Orchard

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: A man loads a crate of citrus fruit onto an International Model C-35 truck in an orchard. The truck was used by Dr. Phillips Company, owners of 5,000 acres...
Postcard

Elevated View of Town and Lake Pepin

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of Stockholm and Lake Pepin. Caption reads: "Stockholm, Wis."
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Ross Peak

Date: 
Description: A view of Ross Peak and wheat fields below, 10 miles from Bozeman. Caption reads: "Ross Peak, 10 miles from Bozeman."
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Crops of Peas and Rye

Date: 07 1897
Description: Promotional card depicting the prosperous farming in northern Wisconsin.

Caption: "Here is shown a mixed crop of peas and rye, the clover in the foregrou...

Print

Abe Eaton

Date: 1895
Description: Promotional card showing the abundance of oats in northern Wisconsin. The image depicts Abe Eaton holding a rake in his tall fields. His hat rests on the s...
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Fields of Rye

Date: 07 1897
Description: A promotional card displaying a man in overalls standing by his large rye crops, near the road.

The caption reads, "This view made from a photograph take...

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The Result of Thrift and Energy

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional cards created to attract farmers to the agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. The image depicts Conrad Flicker and his family standing in ...
Photograph

Koehler Family in a Garden

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: Julius Koehler family in their garden in front of their newly built frame home. The original Koehler farm was destroyed by forest fire in July of 1894, evi...
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The Hay Crop

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional card advertising the large amounts of hay that can be growth in northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men posing on and beside a wagon ca...
Photograph

Thayer Fruit and Vegetable Farm

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: Men displaying produce, a large cabbage and a bushel of potatoes, while standing in the gardens of the Thayer farm. Cabbage, onion, currant, and raspberry ...
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The Home of Julius Koehler

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card created to promote agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. This piece displays Julius Koehler, a man, and a woman in the flourishing ga...

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