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Fort Wayne McCormick Dealership

Date: 1899
Description: View from across street of the three-story facade of a large brick building. A group of employees are posing outdoors in front of the McCormick Harvesting ...
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Texas International Truck Dealership

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Description: International Harvester motor truck dealership. Four men are standing on the sidewalk in front of the building. Three International trucks are parked in th...
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Milk House Customers

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Description: At the Department of Agriculture's Milk House at the Wisconsin State Fair, an elderly woman, Mrs. Shimmon of Milwaukee, and a young man drink milk from pap...
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Governor Kohler and Milk Toast

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., and an unidentified elderly woman, toast each other with paper cups of milk. They are standing near the Department of Agric...
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Rennebohm's No. 5 at Schenk's Corners

Date: 1955
Description: The Rennebohm Drug Store #5, located at 2000 Atwood Avenue, Schenk's Corners from 1952-1961. It was previously located at 1951 Winnebago Street. This store...
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F.W. Woolworth Store

Date: 1954
Description: F.W. Woolworth store on East Main Street at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard), showing the old Vilas block (aka Pioneer Building).
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Telephone Operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket

Date: 1958
Description: Gertrude Martin, operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket, at her desk with a phone in her hand. Behind her a chalkboard displays a reminder to "suggest ...
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S.E. Burns

Date: 1922
Description: Mr. S.E. Burns, an International Harvester dealer, poses for a portrait with his son and son-in-law on either side of him.
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Mr. Brownlie Gout Sitting on a Farmall Regular Tractor

Date: 11 22 1927
Description: Mr. Brownlie Gout, of Punjab, India, sits on top of a McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular tractor in a showroom, while two men stand to the side.
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Cream Separator Model

Date: 01 30 1928
Description: Men and women gather around a giant model of a cream separator, possibly at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Cream Separator on Display at Muscatine Imp. Co.

Date: 07 02 1929
Description: Cream separator advertising display, featuring life-size cutouts of a man pouring milk from a canister and a little girl holding a doll. A sign overhead ad...
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8H3 Deluxe Refrigerator

Date: 1949
Description: An International Harvester refrigerator with all doors open sits against a wall. The refrigerator has two drawers, a small freezer, and food. Bottles and c...
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International Harvester Building

Date: 1945
Description: View of a red pylon and sign reading: "McCormick-Deering...Parts...Service...International." The red pylon is similar to that used at the company's "protot...
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Landaal Brothers Office

Date: 07 16 1937
Description: George J. Landaal sits at a large wooden desk and examines a piece of paper taken from a box in the Landaal Brothers office while Alfred Faller looks on ov...
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Tractor Sales Team Captain in Barber's Chair

Date: 06 18 1937
Description: C.E. Jacquier, branch manager and defeated team captain of a tractor sales contest, is held by C.P. Wells, assistant branch manager, while a barber shaves ...
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McCormick Primrose Cream Separator

Date: 09 03 1924
Description: A McCormick Primrose cream separator sitting in the corner of a room.
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Dave & Pauline Coleman

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Description: Magicians Dave (left) and Pauline Coleman performing their famous "Hindu Torture Board" trick using an anvil on a board full of nails positioned on the abd...
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Ben Bergor with Lighted Cigarettes

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Description: Formal publicity portrait of magician Ben Bergor of Madison performing one of his sleight of hand tricks with lighted cigarettes. Bergor was billed as the ...
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IH Columbia Branch House

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of the International Harvester Company Columbia branch building. Brick buildings stand on either side; to the left is a building bearing the ...
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Heider Tractors Advertisement

Date: 1916
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Rock Island Plow Company to advertise Heider 10-20 and 9-16 tractors. The illustration features the silhouette of...

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