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Book or Pamphlet

Farmall Tractor Comfort Controls

Date: 1952
Description: Advertising illustrations of different comfort controls available on the McCormick H, M and MD tractors. Pictured here are the steering, handling and seati...
Photograph

Grant Family Bible Page

Date: 
Description: Page of photographs removed from the Grant family bible. Included are images of Judge Dan Dent, G. Dent, Mrs. G. Dent, A. Dent, and a hand-colored image of...
Manuscript

Grant Family Bible Page

Date: 
Description: Page, removed from the Grant family bible, containing an image of Jesse R. Grant, father of Ulysses S. Grant.
Print

International Harvester Toy Catalog Cover

Date: 1973
Description: Cover of a brochure for International Harvester toys. Features a color illustration of a boy riding an International pedal tractor pulling a wagon filled w...
Print

International Pickup Truck Brochure

Date: 1972
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the 1972 International pickup truck. Features an elevated view color photograph of men dressed as a carpenter, garden...
Photograph

Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 1911
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Assembly.
Print

The Sun Is His Furnace

Date: 10 1943
Description: A page from "The American Magazine" featuring the architect, George Fred Keck. He is shown with an architectural model of a "solar" home.
Book or Pamphlet

Menus and Recipes for School Lunches

Date: 02 15 1946
Description: Front cover, frontispiece photograph, and page from a publication of the State Board of Health, with half silhouette views of three seated children with mi...
Photograph

Portrait of Governor Albert G. Schmedeman

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Albert Schmedeman, Wisconsin's 28th Governor. Written on the image along Schmedeman's lapel is "A.G. Schmedeman, Governor of Wis...
Photograph

Vel Phillips

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a striped jacket and necklace.
Photograph

Sid Holding Large Fishing Lure

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Description: Portrait of Sid standing in a room holding an oversized fishing lure attached to a rope. Sid has a cigar in his mouth, and his fingernails are stained, pro...
Photograph

James Jesse Strang

Date: 1855
Description: Copy print of a quarter-length daguerreotype portrait of James Jesse Strang.
Magazine or Periodical

Good Neighbor Policy

Date: 12 1954
Description: The second page of an article published in The Westerner, a publication for the employees of the Western Printing & Lithographing Company of Racine....
Book or Pamphlet

Folding Machine

Date: 02 1928
Description: One page of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George Brumder (1839-...
Photograph

James Herman Agen

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length portrait of a man with a two-star lapel pin. Caption reads: "Agen, James Herman. April 29, 1847 - Oct. 5, 1921. He was born at Montpelier, V...
Photograph

Dr. Cora S. Allen

Date: 1928
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Dr. Cora S. Allen, physician and director of the Bureau of Child Welfare in Wisconsin.
Photograph

Frank W. Allis

Date: 1905
Description: Waist-up portrait of Frank Watson Allis, son of Edward P. Allis. Frank was a gentleman farmer in the Blooming Grove community, now Monona.

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