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Bolens Tractors

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Description: Cover of Bolens Tractors catalog. An inventor, Harry W Bolens obtained patents on chair and furniture fixtures, power garden tractors and lawn mowers. He h...
Photograph

Children Looking at Cow in Museum

Date: 1946
Description: Two young girls looking at a stuffed or mechanical cow in the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Photograph

International Harvester Tractor Display

Date: 1946
Description: Display in the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. The display consists of a McCormick Farmall tractor with a male mannequin sitt...
Photograph

Mary Virginia McCormick

Date: 02 17 1901
Description: Mary Virginia McCormick (1861-1941) leaning with her arm on a tree. Mary Virginia was the daughter of Chicago industrialist and inventor, Cyrus Hall McCorm...
Print

James K. Polk, the 11th President

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Description: Engraved portrait of President James K. Polk.
Drawing

Belle Boyd

Date: 1957
Description: Pencil sketch of Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy who is buried in Wisconsin.
Photograph

Men Working at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: A man uses a hammer and chisel to work at Hawkins Mine, while another man stands behind him.
Photograph

Mr. Jens with Tractor Orders

Date: 1922
Description: Mr. Jens, most likely an International Harvester employee (possibly a dealer) poses for a portrait holding a stack of tractor orders.
Photograph

Man with Stack of Papers

Date: 1922
Description: An office worker, most likely an employee of International Harvester, stands behind a table with his hand held on top of a stack of papers.
Photograph

Factory Worker at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1921
Description: Factory worker operating a machine at Milwaukee Works.
Photograph

Tractor and Golfer on Golf Course

Date: 05 26 1928
Description: A man on a Fairway tractor with a mower waits while a golfer tees off at a golf course.
Photograph

John S. Donald

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Description: John S. Donald and an officer in uniform standing next to a potted evergreen tree.
Photograph

Men Working Near Silo

Date: 10 05 1928
Description: Farmers work with a wagon and silo filler on the farm of W.P. Progovsky.
Photograph

William Gustafson

Date: 06 08 1929
Description: William Gustafson poses in front of a tractor and other McCormick-Deering farm equipment.
Photograph

Joe Althoff and Son

Date: 05 29 1929
Description: Joe Althoff crouches in a field with arms around his young son.
Print

Carl Schurz

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Description: Steel engraving of Carl Schurz.
Photograph

Lloyd J. Harris Pie Co. Truck

Date: 1940
Description: Man standing with a pie container next to an International model D-15-M truck with Metro body. According to the original caption, "Chef Wright" is the driv...
Photograph

Spring-Tooth Harrow

Date: 05 29 1923
Description: A farmer walks behind a horse-drawn spring-tooth harrow in a field. An orchard is on the right.
Photograph

Syndonia Josephine Hobbins Jackson

Date: 1913
Description: Waist-up portrait of Mrs. James A Hobbins. 1848-1934. Syndonia was born September 20, 1848 in England and moved to Madison, WI in 1854. She married Dr. Ja...
Photograph

Khrushchev's First Hot Dog

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Interviewed outside a meat packing plant near Des Moines, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev pronounced his first American hot dog to be "wonderful, but not...

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