Farm Days Gone By
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Farm Days Gone By
Here’s a nice photo of the Seggebruch family of Crete in 1936: Walter and Grace with their children, from left,…
Farm Days Gone by
Wind power is nothing new on farms, as this farmhand on the Seggebruch farm Crete shows us the 16-foot diameter…
Farm Days Gone By
Jeff Brandau sends us this picture from the 1960s of Clarence and Ralph Sangmeister are dehairing a pig for butchering.…
Farm Days Gone By
Jeff Brandau submitted this photo from the 1960s of John Wille and Clarence Sangmeister shelling corn at John Wille’s farm.
Farm Days Gone By
The Seggebruch kids — Millie, Marie and Fred — in front of the farmhouse in Crete in 1941.
Farm Days Gone By
Rodney Bettenhausen shared a bunch of photos taken by his grandmother, Sylvia Bettenhausen of rural Manhattan. In this one, Glenn…
Farm Days Gone By
Jeff Brandau, whose Mom was a Sangmeister, shares this photo from 1967 of Marie Sangmeister at the sewing machine and…
Farm Days Gone By
John Kiefner provided this photo to go with his column this week. Before electricity and refrigeration came to the dairy…
Farm Days Gone By
Sharen Klausing Suste of Frankfort shares this photo from 60 years ago of the Fred Francis 4H Field in New…
Farm Days Gone By
Rex Steffes dropped by to show us this picture from 1926 of Jacob Steffes and his hired guy cultivating 40-inch…
Farm Days Gone By
Jeff Brandau shares a picture from 1969 of Clarence Sangmeister and Roy Sangmeister (with the grease gun) getting ready to…
Farm Days Gone By
Judy Brown of Lockport dug up this oldie but goodie from 1895, taken at her grandfather, Charles Burkhardt’s, farm in…