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Photograph

Milk Strike at Stanley

Date: 1932
Description: Crowd gathered for the milk strike at Stanley.
Print

International Harvester Engine Trade Card

Date: 1905
Description: Advertising card for International Harvester stationary engines. Features a color illustration of a young girl fetching water from a trough. A pump powered...
Print

D.M. Osborne Factory Buildings

Date: 1893
Description: Inside spread of an advertising folder showing factory buildings of the D.M. Osborne Company. The top center illustration is the Office and Factory; bottom...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne World's Fair Souvenir

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of an advertising folder produced by the D.M. Osborne Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features illustrations of a young gi...
Print

Cheese & Butter Table

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising brochure for Wisconsin's dairy industry issued by the State Department of Agriculture. It depicts Wisconsin as the table upon which cheese and...
Print

Victory Garden Seed Order Form

Date: 1943
Description: Front side of order blank for Aunt Jenny's Garden for Victory seeds featuring a drawing of a woman and several vegetables.
Print

Heider Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Heider tractor, made and sold by Rock Island Plow Company. The pamphlet features a decorative border surrounding ...
Print

Heider Tractor and Plow Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Heider tractors. A photograph of a man using a tractor and plow is placed at the top and a label reading: "Return to ...
Book or Pamphlet

Rock Island Plow Company Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Back cover of a brochure advertising Rock Island Plow Company farm machinery. The advertisement features lists of agricultural equipment produced by the co...
Book or Pamphlet

Power Behind Farm Profits Brochure

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of a brochure produced by the Rock Island Plow Company advertising Heider tractors as "The Power behind Farm Profits." The cover lists Heider tr...
Book or Pamphlet

Nilson Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Nilson tractors. The captions surrounding an illustration of the tractor read: "Nilson Patented Lever Hitch," "The Ha...
Book or Pamphlet

"Stop This Leak" Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the La Crosse tractor featuring an illustration of horses eating corn that is falling out of a corn crib.
Book or Pamphlet

La Crosse Happy Farmer Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the La Crosse Happy Farmer kerosene tractor. The cover features an illustration of a man using the tractor in a farm ...
Photograph

Apfelbach Summer Home

Date: 1915
Description: Birch and other trees frame the view of a distant house and barn with poplars behind, lining the road (now Highway 42) at Fish Creek.
Photograph

Calves in Orchard

Date: 1916
Description: Two calves lying under blooming cherry trees in a Door County orchard.
Book or Pamphlet

Cletrac Tank-Type Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover to a pamphlet advertising the Cletrac tank-type tractor produced by the Cleveland Tractor Company. The cover features an illustration of a farm...
Book or Pamphlet

The Cletrac in Industry

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Cletrac tank-type tractor produced by the Cleveland Tractor Company. A watercolor painting portrays two men with ...
Book or Pamphlet

Dart Truck and Tractor Company Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Dart Truck and Tractor Corporation. The text reads: "Dart - The Answer to Modern Commercial Demands."
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Silo Filler

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Eagle steel frame silo filler featuring a color illustration of two farmers using the filler.
Print

Frick Agricultural Equipment

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Frick line of agricultural equipment, including saw mills, engines, threshers, and tractors. Frick Company was ba...

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