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Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Broadcast Fertilizer Sower Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Kentucky line of broadcast fertilizer sowers. Features an illustration of a farmer "liming fa...
Print

Manny's Reaper and Mower Advertisement

Date: 1856
Description: Engraved illustration from an advertising booklet for Manny's Patent Adjustable reaper and mower. The page features two images of men operating the reaper ...
Photograph

Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 1921
Description: A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a dress is standing and holding the hand crank of a McCormick Primrose cream separator on the porch of a house.
Photograph

No Substitute Equals Mother's Milk

Date: 1915
Description: Copy print of a poster promoting breast feeding for infant health. At the center is an image of a painting depicting a woman nursing a baby by Heckman & Zi...
Photograph

Sherwin Gillett

Date: 1902
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Sherwin Gillett. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but the photograph is from years before he started his own photogra...
Photograph

Portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. He is wearing a suit coat and bow tie. To the left of the photograph in the scrapbook is written, "Fo...
Photograph

Threshing Operation

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: View across field towards men using a tractor-powered threshing machine. Some of the men are standing on horse-drawn wagson loaded with grain. The field is...
Photograph

Man with Oil Delivery Truck at Oil Tanks

Date: 09 04 1925
Description: A man is filling an oil delivery truck from a storage tank. A sign on the largest tank reads, in part: "Cities Ser..."
Photograph

Tractor-Drawn Harvester-Thresher

Date: 07 12 1926
Description: View from front of two men using a harvester-thresher in a field.
Photograph

Austin Motor Grader on Road

Date: 06 15 1926
Description: View across unpaved road towards a man operating an Austin Motor Grader.
Photograph

Tractor Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 08 10 1926
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man driving a tractor pulling a binder in a field.
Photograph

Baling Operation with Hay Presses

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: View across field towards a wagon, and a tractor belt-driving a hay press. Two men are working near the hay press.
Photograph

Baling Operation with Hay Presses

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: View across field towards a wagon, and a tractor belt-driving a hay press. Three men are working near the hay press.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Catalog Cover for Bohemia

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover of catalog for Bohemia in the Rumanian language for Deering Products. Features an illustration of a man on a horse-drawn binder in a field.
Photograph

Emma L. Mildred

Date: 
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of a woman sitting in profile. She is wearing a lace blouse with a collar pin, and a dress with elaborate beaded trim. Emma has si...
Photograph

Caroline Louisa Alden

Date: 
Description: Portrait of a woman. Caption reads: "Alden, (Miss) of Delafield, Wis. She is a descendant of John Alden who came to Massachusetts on the MAYFLOWER. She at ...

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