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Farmer's Birthday

Date: 07 07 1983
Description: John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion.
Photograph

Washburn Observatory

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory. Hill, trees and fields are in the background. A man is standing near a small obs...
Print

Treading Grain with Horses

Date: 1885
Description: Back cover of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog from 1885. The illustration shows horses with elaborate tack treading grain surrounded by men ...
Photograph

Corn Binder

Date: 
Description: Left side view of a farmer driving two horses pulling a corn binder.
Photograph

Hinsdale Product Identification Show

Date: 07 1958
Description: Visiting dealers look over International Harvester's 1958 line of tractors at a product introduction show. The photograph was taken near the show's dining ...
Photograph

Agriculture Students

Date: 1915
Description: Group of male and female students seated at desks in the assembly room of the School of Agriculture.
Photograph

Students Making Stenciled Charts

Date: 02 1916
Description: Young students making stenciled charts with teacher J.W. Page at the Morton Grove School. Original caption reads: "Another view of a school making junior c...
Photograph

Children Gardening

Date: 1920
Description: Children working in garden. One child is pulling beets, while another child is digging up potatoes with a hoe. Another child is sitting in a wheelbarrow lo...
Book or Pamphlet

Russell Traction Engine

Date: 1921
Description: Page in the Year Book of the Russell & Co. featuring a color illustration of a single cylinder traction engine.
Book or Pamphlet

Russell Gas Tractor

Date: 1921
Description: Page in the Year Book of the Russell & Co. advertising the gas tractor. The text beneath the color illustration reads: "The Russell Gas Tractor Made in Fou...
Book or Pamphlet

Russell Thresher

Date: 1921
Description: Page in the Year Book of the Russell & Co. advertising a thresher. The color illustration shows the machine and the text reads: "Showing 'Massillon Farmers...
Book or Pamphlet

Indiana Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Indiana tractor, created by the Indiana Silo and Tractor Company. The cover features a side-view illustration of t...
Print

Sod-Breakers Wood Engraving

Date: 1840
Description: Sod-breaker and five yoke of oxen plowing in front of the “Old Cottage Inn.” In the foreground a boat is on the shoreline.
Photograph

Wisconsin Potato Growers Association

Date: 1913
Description: Exhibition of potatoes. The sign on the far right over a bin of potato's reads: "Green Mountain, grown by S.J. Uhrenholdt, Hayward, Sawyer County, Listed w...

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