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Photograph

Child in a Shopping Cart

Date: 01 27 1956
Description: Child in a shopping cart with a frozen Armour smoked ham.
Photograph

African American Tenant Farmers Picking Cotton

Date: 1900
Description: Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand.
Photograph

Candy Maker

Date: 10 11 1981
Description: Jim Niemann decorates dipped chocolates at his family's business, Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop.
Photograph

Hardware Sales

Date: 12 19 1962
Description: Hilgendorf's Hardware store clerk showing a saw to a customer.
Photograph

J.C. Iversen & Co.

Date: 1900
Description: Four-level building with shorter buildings flanking it on either side. On the road in front two carriages are visible, drawn by horses. A group of men ar...
Photograph

Black Out Curtains

Date: 1942
Description: Publicity photograph of a woman hanging blackout curtains, with the assistance of her young daughter. The photograph was taken to provide illustration for ...
Photograph

John W.D. Wright Portrait

Date: 1962
Description: Quarter-length portrait of John W.D. Wright. Wright served International Harvester Company as Comptroller from 1961 to 1963, when he also assumed the role ...
Photograph

Article Featuring Richard Ely

Date: 02 1930
Description: An article titled "Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities to Establish Outpost in China" features Professor Richard Ely.
Book or Pamphlet

Boring Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Boring tractor, featuring a color illustration of a man using the tractor to work in a farm field.
Book or Pamphlet

Boring Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising the Boring tractor with a headline reading: "You want a practical tractor -" and a rear-view illustration of a man usi...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Catalog cover for the Johnston Harvester Company, Batavia, New York.
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Catalog cover featuring a color illustration of flowers, moons, stars and stalks of wheat.
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of catalog, featuring an illustration of a decorative frame with wheat stalks around the company logo over a shield enclosed by a laurel wreath...

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