Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, loaded with gunny sacks of wheat taken between 1872 and 1878. Men are unloading barrels and gunny sacks on a gangpl... |
Date: | 1859 |
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Description: | Lithograph from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois in 1860. From a pho... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Engineering(?) photograph of a grain binder. The binder may be experimental. |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Participants, spectators, and the competition grounds of the Western Rifle Association Tournament. |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Participants at the Western Rifle Association Tournament in Wapello, Iowa. Many of the men are holding guns. A farmhouse and farm buildings are in the ba... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | View of upright and wing house with adjacent windmill structure made in Batavia, Illinois, by U.S. Wind Eng. Pump Co. The barn has a stone foundation. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background. |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | A farmer with a long beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in front of a board fence, which is part of an elaborate system of fencing surro... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | A family stands in front of a barn. Beside them are cattle, horses, a wagon and a manual rake reaper. |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | A family is gathered in a yard playing croquet. Nearby a child sits on a rocking horse and holds onto a small wagon. Behind that are some women and another... |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | A family is posed in their garden with a baby in its buggy and a woman holding her hat. The frame house behind them has a parapet roof, a porch with lattic... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | A family is posed in front of a wood frame house. A boy or girl with a doll is sitting with a dog on the porch roof. A man holding an accordion is sitting ... |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | The Richard Green residence is a frame house with a porch that features latticework. Before it stands an elaborate white fence. A clothesline pole can be s... |
Date: | 1869 |
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Description: | A family stands behind a picket fence in the yard of a frame Greek Revival house with latticework on its porch. There are two wood trellises in the yard. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | A carriage and a family stand in front of a picket fence in front of an unpainted Greek Revival frame house. Attached to the house is a storefront. Althoug... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | A family is posing at the side of a house. A man and boy are holding rifles, and a dog is lying on the ground between the. There is a baby sitting in a hig... |
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