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A Prairie Farm
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View across field towards a farm, with farmhouse, barn, outbuildings, and fences. The photograph appeared in Joseph Schafer's 1932 book The Wisconsin Lead Region, on a photographic plate between pages 144 and 145. In the book it is captioned: "A prairie farm, town of Mifflin, Iowa County, 1886."
1886
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