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Alfalfa field on the Watson Ranch, Buffalo County, Nebraska

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Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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agricultural machinery horses haying equipment stacking hay alfalfa harvesting buffalo county field alfalfa field watson ranch watson ranch buffalo nebraska 19th century high resolution butcher solomon d solomon devore 1856 1927 prairie settlement nebraska photographs and family letters 1862 1912 solomon d butcher great plains library of congress
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01/01/1900
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Solomon D. Butcher (Photographer)
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buffalo county
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Library of Congress
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agricultural machinery horses haying equipment stacking hay alfalfa harvesting buffalo county field alfalfa field watson ranch watson ranch buffalo nebraska 19th century high resolution butcher solomon d solomon devore 1856 1927 prairie settlement nebraska photographs and family letters 1862 1912 solomon d butcher great plains library of congress