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Yuba Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement comparing the power of the Yuba Manufacturing Company's Yuba 12-20 tractor to a horse. Part of the caption reads: "A horse big enough to do t...
Print

"Tracover" Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the "Tracover", a tractor garage, in the "Yuba Bulletin". The illustration shows a farmer beside a Yuba tractor next to a "Tracover" buil...
Book or Pamphlet

Model 12-20 Yuba Ball Tread Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Yuba Model 12-20 tractor, featuring an elevated view of two men using a Yuba half-track style crawler tractor to p...
Book or Pamphlet

Yuba Model 12-20 Tractor Specifications

Date: 1918
Description: Specification page of a booklet advertising the Yuba Model 12-20 tractor featuring side, rear, and front view illustrations of a half-track style crawler t...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Farm Tractors

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Eagle farm tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a tractor to plow a field in front of a farmhouse.
Print

The G-O Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the G-O Tractor featuring a color illustration of a man using the tractor looking down upon a miniaturized man using a...
Book or Pamphlet

Caterpillar 45 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Caterpillar 45 tractor.
Book or Pamphlet

Caterpillar 45 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of a brochure advertising the Caterpillar 45 tractor, illustrated working in a farm field beneath a cloudy sky.
Photograph

Milwaukee Home for Aged Lutherans Piano Player

Date: 1967
Description: Miss Lydia Henie, 76 years old, playing the piano in the devotional room of the Home for Aged Lutherans, 7500 West North Avenue.
Photograph

Queen of the Day

Date: 04 1948
Description: Mrs. Caroline Meyer, 88, being crowned as queen of the day at the centennial program of the Town Mesne Farm Bureau. Mrs. Meyer was honored as the oldest mo...
Photograph

Wilbur J. Cohen Standing at a Lectern

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Description: Wilbur Cohen, emphasizing a point, clenches his fists at a lectern. This is probably during a talk for Save Our Security, a non-profit coalition of nationa...
Book or Pamphlet

Eclipse Wind Engine Co. Catalog

Date: 1880
Description: Page from Eclipse Wind Engine Co. [Beloit, Wisconsin] catalog featuring an illustration of an Eclipse Wind Engine installed in a barn. A cut-away view show...
Photograph

Card Player; Esther Lewis

Date: 07 11 1968
Description: Close-up of a woman wearing a newspaper hat playing cards. Identified as Esther Lewis playing with the Golden Agers club members in Washington Park, Milwau...
Photograph

Anita McCormick in Bridesmaid Dress

Date: 1888
Description: Group portrait of four women in front of a painted backdrop. Original caption reads: "Elizabeth King (left), possibly Katherine Isham,---, and Anita McC [M...
Photograph

Meinhardt Raabe

Date: 
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of an elderly Meinhardt Raabe wearing a costume similar to the one he wore in The Wizard of Oz as the coroner of Munch...
Photograph

Shirley Clarke Directing "The Cool World"

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Description: Shirley Clarke directing a scene from "The Cool World" on a city sidewalk. Her back is to the camera, and she is standing giving directions to the camerama...
Photograph

Quivey's Grove Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A bare, large bur oak appears almost as a silhouette against the sky and snow-covered ground. It is standing on the grounds of Quivey's Grove Restaurant at...
Photograph

Signal Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A tall bur oak at the corner of Ransom and West Thorne Streets dwarfs adjacent houses and their garages. The tree is bare and there is snow on the ground. ...
Photograph

White Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A mature white oak with multiple large branches standing in the backyard of the Robert Carberry house on Millston Avenue. The rear of the house and a bird ...
Photograph

Willow Drive

Date: 1982
Description: Large specimens of Salix alba line Willow Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Some of the trees date from the 1890s, and many have ...

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