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Schroeder Hotel

Date: 1941
Description: Elevated view of hotel. On the lower right above the entrance is a sign for the Empire Room. Automobiles are parked on the street. A flag pole without a fl...
Photograph

Highway Mowing with International A Tractor

Date: 1946
Description: Man mowing grass along a road or highway with an International A tractor and mower. A house, barn, some sheds, a car, and a tractor are in the background, ...
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Pepsi-Cola Bottling Plant

Date: 1938
Description: A McCormick-Deering Cooler installation in a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant. The cooler is mounted on a raised platform.
Photograph

Man with McCormick-Deering Milker

Date: 03 13 1939
Description: A man holds hoses attached to a wall-mounted McCormick-Deering milker. The original caption reads: "Milker solution rack scene."
Photograph

Lou Tellegen, Geraldine Farrar, and Two Dogs

Date: 1917
Description: Lou Tellegen, Dutch-born actor, and Geraldine Farrar, American operatic soprano and silent film actress, and two canine friends. Tellegen and Farrar were m...
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Man Loading Silo

Date: 1915
Description: A man is using a silo filler powered by a belt attached to a tractor. Two work horses are tethered on the left, and on the right is a silo and a barn. Ther...
Photograph

Butterbeans and Suzy

Date: 1962
Description: Jodie "Butterbeans" Edwards and his wife "Suzy," a vaudeville comedy act. After Suzy died in 1962, Edwards continued to tour until the time of his death in...
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Houdini in Chains in "Terror Island"

Date: 1920
Description: Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil...
Photograph

Dorny Dornfeld

Date: 1929
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Werner "Dorny" Dornfeld, a Chicago area magician who was a leader in several national organizations of magicians. The "Be...
Manuscript

Thomas Jefferson Letter

Date: 1783
Description: Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Rogers Clark suggesting a transcontinental expedition.
Book or Pamphlet

Uncle Sam Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Interior pages of a pamphlet advertising the Uncle Sam 20-30 oil tractor. A paragraph detailing the features of the tractor is illustrated with a drawing o...
Print

Tractor Drawn Implements

Date: 1920
Description: Pamphlet illustrating the La Crosse Tractor Company's line of tractor-drawn implements. They include, clockwise from top right, the No.90 tractor disc plow...
Print

Jewel Tractor Engine

Date: 1920
Description: Two illustrations of the Jewel tractor motor, with captions reading: "Cuts the cost of farming in half" and "Burns Kerosene or Gasoline."
Photograph

Downtown Port Washington

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Description: View down center of downtown street in Port Washington. Night view showing electric lights, neon signs and falling snowflakes.
Photograph

Crawford Livingston, Sr.

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Description: Photograph of an 1837 painting of Crawford Livingston, Sr., his wife and son. The painting was the work of John Livingston Harding. Murray K. Keyes photogr...
Photograph

Frederick Layton

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Frederick Layton in middle age.
Photograph

Hercules Dousman

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Description: Digital reproduction of a framed oil painting of Hercules Dousman. He is leaning on the back of a chair, holding his gloves, and iis wearing a suit with an...
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Hungarian Bride and Groom

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Description: Full-length portrait of a woman and man standing and posing in traditional wedding costume. Caption reads: "HUNGARY. Mezokovesd (near Budapest), a bride an...
Photograph

Theater Guild Committee

Date: 08 09 1956
Description: Four women posing in front of bookshelves, looking at stacks of publications. Caption reads: "The Theater Guild committee met Wednesday at the Unive...
Photograph

Albert Alden

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Description: Photograph of a painting of Albert Alden, shipmaster from Portland, Maine.

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