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Dale Farm

Date: 
Description: A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption...
Manuscript

Christmas Day

Date: 1917
Description: A scrapbook page containing three photographs of John A. Commons (presumably) in his World War I uniform, standing with another man with a Christmas tree, ...
Photograph

Stage in front of Coon Valley Store

Date: 1892
Description: Caption: "Stage driven by William C. Alden stopping in front of Coon Valley store on the route between Viroqua to Muscoda and La Crosse. Alden drove the st...
Photograph

Clown in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

Date: 
Description: A clown in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus standing outside a tent near a wagon, with his left hand holding onto a tent rope. He is wearing a beret-style hat,...
Photograph

Teachers Picket

Date: 11 08 1967
Description: Teachers protest the lack of a "concrete offer" for a new contract in front of the Milwaukee vocational school.
Photograph

Lab Work

Date: 1950
Description: Holding a dropper over racks of test tubes, a man in a lab coat aims to place drops in the receptacles.
Photograph

Joseph McCarthy

Date: 1946
Description: Joseph McCarthy at the time of his election victory over Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., in the Republican primary.
Photograph

Lincoln Terrace

Date: 1952
Description: Lincoln Terrace on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Unveiled in 1909, the Lincoln Statue was created by sculptor Adolf Weinman of Hodgenville, K...
Photograph

Indian Petroglyphs

Date: 1960
Description: Norb Bybee shoots a self-portrait with his camera of petroglyphs that are carved in the face of a rock shelter near Gullikson's Glen.
Photograph

Man Dressed as an Old Woman

Date: 
Description: A man dressed as an old woman, possibly as part of a role playing activity.
Photograph

Weighing the Curd

Date: 11 07 1979
Description: Cheesemaker Laurel Ettien, measuring the weight of cheese curd after it was separated from the whey.
Print

Auto-Tiller Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Two interior pages of a pamphlet produced by the World Harvester Corporation to advertise the auto-tiller. The advertisement features a photograph of a man...
Book or Pamphlet

Moline-Universal Tractor At Work

Date: 1921
Description: Interior pages of a pamphlet advertising the Moline-Universal tractor featuring photographs of the tractor at work on farms.
Manuscript

Oliver Hart-Paar Tractor Booklet

Date: 1937
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Oliver Hart-Paar tractors featuring a color illustration of a farmer using a tractor and plow in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Road Building with Cletrac Tractors

Date: 1921
Description: Front and back cover of a pamphlet advertising Cletrac tank-type tractors featuring a photograph of a man using a Cletrac crawler tractor to haul a wagon. ...
Print

How Lumbermen Use the Cletrac

Date: 1921
Description: Pamphlet advertising the Cletrac tank-type tractor. It features a photograph of a man using a crawler tractor to pull a wagon loaded with felled trees; a m...
Print

Waterloo Boy Advertising Booklet Cover

Date: 1928
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the John Deere Waterloo Boy tractor. The cover features a color illustration of a farmer using a Waterloo Boy tractor ...
Print

Trackpull Crawler Equipment

Date: 05 1926
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet for Trackpull crawler equipment for the Fordson tractor. The cover features a man using the Fordson tractor to pull a...
Book or Pamphlet

Case Farm Tractors

Date: 1923
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Case farm tractors and Grand Detour plows. The cover features a color illustration of a man using a tractor to work in...
Photograph

Portrait of J.H. Denison

Date: 1905
Description: Seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop, retouched, of J.H. Denison.

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