Title: Gilmar Johnson Films
Inclusive Dates: 1949-1975

Creator:

• Johnson, Gilmar

Call Number: VBB 296-VBB 310

Quantity: 15 videocassettes (3/4-inch)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Films by Gilmar Johnson, a farmer and steam tractor enthusiast from Frederic, Wisconsin. The films are compiled footage that document home, farm, and community life mainly in Polk, Burnett, and Barron Counties. Footage includes the daily routine of farm activities in rural Minnesota and Wisconsin and a range of activities in small-town communities including picnics, parades, farm auctions, and various sports activities. All footage is color and silent.

Note:

There is a restriction on use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

All films are on U-Matic (3/4-inch) user videocassettes; color and silent.

The location of the original films is unknown.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-vbb296

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Use Restrictions

No duplication or public screening without consent of copyright holder.

VBB 296	Community activities and winter scenes, 1949-1959 Note: Footage includes an American Indian pow-wow, black cherry picking, festivals, animals, and winter sports and activities.
VBB 297	State parks, waterfalls, and Minnesota towns, 1950-1951 Note: Footage includes shots from Manitou Falls, Copper Falls State Park, and Gooseberry Falls, Taylor Falls, and Two Harbors, Minnesota.
VBB 298	Wisconsin communities, 1951-1952 Note: Footage includes many shots of various people, animals, flowers, lakes, parades, and areas around Frederic, Barron, and West Sweden, Wisconsin.
VBB 299	Church programs and farming, 1952-1953, 1962 Note: Footage of church activities including confirmation baptisms, church groups, and bible school, and farming activities including planting corn and cutting hay and grain.
VBB 300	Rural communities in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, 1954-1955 Note: Footage includes scenes from various small towns in Iowa and Minnesota, Pattison State Park, and various mills.
VBB 301	Farming 1, 1955-1956 Note: Footage of farming activities including seeding oats, sawing wood, threshing, shredding, and corn chopping.
VBB 302	Farming 2, 1949-1955 Note: Footage of farming activities and equipment including silos, a wood steam engine, a manure spreader, shredding, plowing, chopping corn, and an auction.
VBB 303	Farming 3, 1950-1955 Note: Footage of farming activities including plowing, hauling hay, threshing, silo filling, and shredding corn and scenes of Little Norway, Dodgeville scenery, and Tower Hill State Park.
VBB 304	Vehicles and farm equipment, 1950, 1953 Note: Footage of vintage cars, trains, tractors, and other farm equipment and farming activities including threshing and stacking grain.
VBB 305	Farming 4, 1956-1959 Note: Footage of a steam locomotive, farm equipment and farming activities and techniques, sugar bushing, a tractor expo, and farming shows.
VBB 306	Farming 5, 1959-1963 Note: Footage of farm activities, equipment, and shows. Equipment includes a Model T, a Knickerbocker Forma-Tractor, a 45 Mogul, a John Deere GP, a Ottawa drag saw, Titans, and a Sears gas engine. Farming activities includes threshing, haying, and shredding corn. Scenes of farming shows in various towns in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin are also included.
VBB 307	Farming and trains, 1962-1963 Note: Footage of a train at Bambi Land, Minnesota, Duluth and Northeastern Railroad, and farm activities. Farming activities include plowing, threshing, silo filling, and sawing wood.
VBB 308	Farming and community activities, 1964 Note: Footage of farming and communities. Farming activities include shredding, team horses plowing, filling silos at George Rock Island, baling at Mount Pleasant, and planting corn. Community activities include an Eau Claire shoe; a parade in Lindstrom, Minnesota; getting Christmas trees; skiing at Trollhaugen ski resort; and a picnic.
VBB 309	Farming 6, 1964-1970 Note: Footage of farming activities including silo filling, steam powered threshing, shredding corn, and cutting oats. Also includes footage of a horse plowing contest.
VBB 310	Farming 7, 1970-1975 Note: Footage of threshing with different equipment including a threshing bee and a Titan, a sawmill fire, Clinchfield Railway, and various farm and rodeo shows. Shows include Tony Procks show, a rodeo and steam show, a steam train show at Soo Locks, and a Loganville horse show.