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Reclaiming Swamp Land
Stereograph showing workers digging a ditch with a tractor and laying drain tile.
Draining Horicon Marsh
1914
View of a drainage ditch in Horicon Marsh. A man is on a path along the left of the ditch.
Digging a Ditch and Laying Drain Tile
View of a crew surveying land, digging a ditch, and laying drain tile.
Terraced Drainage
1936
A level pasture terrace showing water in the channel. These terraces, largely experimental, are built on the level, drainage being provided for by means of an iron pipe, the arrangement somewhat re...
Men in Plowed Horicon Marsh
1914
Group of well-dressed men standing in front of a plowed segment of Horicon Marsh.
