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Chicken Plucking

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Description: A chicken plucking demonstration at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Poultry Building

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Description: Interior view of the Poultry Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, showing the chickens entered in the competition in their cages. The patriotic decor sugg...
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Wisconsin Chicken Farm

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Description: The chicken farm of Alfred Ruf on State Highway 3.
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Cha-Cha-Cha

Date: 1961
Description: A Prairie Chicken performing his Booming Dance.
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Chicken Coop and Fenced Yard at Pabst Farm

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Description: Chickens outside of a large chicken coop in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
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Ellen Kayser with Baby Chicks

Date: 03 25 1949
Description: Pictured at the University of Wisconsin poultry husbandry department is Ellen Kayser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul (Alfie) Kayser, 3 Bayside Drive, holdin...
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Eggs Hatching

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Description: A group of fairgoers intently watch an exhibit of eggs, some of which are just beginning to hatch.
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Man, Dog and Chickens

Date: 03 03 1947
Description: Irvin Thompson with Andy, a chicken retrieving dog, placing an escaped chicken into a crate at the Southern Wisconsin Produce Company, 633 West Doty Street...
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Man Weighing Chickens

Date: 07 30 1929
Description: Man weighing chickens on a Toledo scale at the Southern Wisconsin Produce Company, located at 638-40 West Main Street.
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Chickens

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Description: A group of five chickens near a ladder in a yard in front of a barn.
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Man on a Horse

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Description: Outdoor view of a man posing sitting on a horse in a field, with a dog and some chickens in the background.
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Farm

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Description: View across field towards a farm with a house, two barns, chickens, a windmill, and two smaller buildings.
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Counted Thread Embroidery

Date: 08 04 1964
Description: A counted thread embroidery of a rooster, created by Elinor Schnore.
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Chicken at Bintzler Farm

Date: 06 1949
Description: "Pat Bintzler displays one of her prize chickens."
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Barnyard Monarch

Date: 1975
Description: View across water towards a rooster perching in a barn window, looking over his domain.
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Frank Smith, Jr.

Date: 1933
Description: Frank Smith, Jr., age 12, feeds chickens on his father's farm. The farmhouse is in the background. Young Smith was a student at the Hillcrest School, Distr...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of European Americans

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of an unidentified man and two women posing standing on the porch of a wooden house.
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A Woman, A Girl and Some Chickens

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Description: Outdoor view of a woman and a girl posing standing in a yard. There are chickens and a wooden structure in the distance.
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Woman with Chickens

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Description: View uphill towards a woman standing next to a wooden structure in a yard with a dog, and chickens behind a wire fence.
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Dog on a Stump

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Description: View of a dog sitting on a tree stump in a yard, with a chicken, wood piles and a wooden structure in the background.

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