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Farmer Filling Manure Spreader

Date: 02 09 1911
Description: Farmer shoveling manure into the box of a horse-drawn International New Low manure spreader in a farm yard.
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Reapers and Mowers Catalog Cover

Date: 1879
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Champion line of reapers and mowers manufactured by Warder, Mitchell, and Company. The cover features a color illu...
Photograph

Congressional Committee at Lincoln Funeral

Date: 05 1865
Description: Albumen print of the Congressional Committee, in front of the Abraham Lincoln home for Lincoln's funeral. The Congressional Committee accompanied Lincoln's...
Photograph

Crowd around Public Receiving Tomb

Date: 05 1895
Description: Albumen print of spectators standing and seated around the public receiving tomb in Oakridge Cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's body was placed after his fun...
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Family Posed near Fence and Frame House

Date: 1872
Description: An unidentified family, thought to be Yankees, pose at a board fence in front of an upright and wing frame house. The group includes two women with poses i...
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Abraham C. Martin and Family

Date: 1871
Description: Springfield Township, Dane County (Section 22) corner of Fischer Road and Highway 12, Wi. Abraham C. Martin, a farmer and dairyman with his family in fron...
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Abraham C. Martin and Family

Date: 1871
Description: Springfield Township, Dane County (Section 22) corner of Fischer Road and Highway 12, Wi. Abraham C. Martin, a farmer and dairyman with his family in fron...
Photograph

Henry Hooker Family

Date: 1871
Description: The Henry Hooker family in front of a picket fence before their stone house, which has a bird cage and a picture hanging on its front porch. In the 1870 c...
Photograph

William Bullock Family

Date: 1872
Description: The William Bullock family is posed before a stone upright and wing house with carpenter's lace brackets and trim on its porch.
Drawing

Conveying Provisions over the Ozark Mountains

Date: 
Description: "Conveying Provisions over the Ozark Mountains to the Army at Springfield, MO." Men on horseback are riding along a trail carrying supplies.
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International Trucks

Date: 09 16 1936
Description: Two International trucks, a C-300 chassis and a C-1 panel, parked at right angles to each other on a residential street.
Photograph

Statue of Menard

Date: 1888
Description: Close-up of a statue honoring Colonel Pierre Menard who also served as the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and fur traded with Native Americans. Dedicated ...
Photograph

General Price's Former Headquarters

Date: 
Description: A view of a man standing in front of the ruins of General Sterling Price's former headquarters. Price served as a United States Army brigadier general duri...
Photograph

Lincoln Tomb

Date: 1874
Description: View across lawn toward the Lincoln Tomb, the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary, and three of their four sons, Edward, William, and Tho...
Photograph

Riverside Road

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a riverside road with waterfront buildings. One of the buildings has a belltower.
Photograph

Hay Press Parts

Date: 03 14 1908
Description: Hay press parts in a yard at Champion Works. In the background, also in the yard, is a wagon and other agricultural implements. There are buildings behind ...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Hay Press Near Barn

Date: 01 08 1908
Description: View across barnyard towards a horse-drawn hay press near the open doorway of a barn. In the background is a haystack behind a fence.
Photograph

Hay Press

Date: 10 08 1908
Description: Hay press in a yard with stacks of wood or pallets. In the background are buildings behind a fence.
Photograph

Hay Press in Yard

Date: 10 08 1908
Description: Hay press, in foreground on white cloth, sitting in a yard near stacks of wood or pallets. There are buildings behind a fence in the background.
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Manure Spreader in Field

Date: 11 21 1908
Description: Side view of a manure spreader in a field.

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