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Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne & Company 20th Century Book

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a chromolithograph illustration of angels flying over a field to herald the new century. The title reads: "The Os...
Photograph

Walter L. Main Circus Personnel

Date: 1904
Description: Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers....
Photograph

Schendel's Vaudeville Show, Circus, and Menagerie

Date: 08 23 1901
Description: The stage and surrounding posters of Professor Oscar John Schendel's "All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Mammoth Menagerie."
Book or Pamphlet

International Auto Buggy

Date: 1909
Description: Catalog cover for the International auto buggy featuring a color illustration of a woman driving one of the vehicles. The IH product name is another exampl...
Photograph

Farmhouses and Churches

Date: 1900
Description: View from hill across field towards farmhouses, dwellings and churches along a road. In the foreground are stumps. Caption reads: "Big Falls, Wis."
Photograph

Red Star Yeast and Products Company

Date: 1908
Description: Exterior of the Red Star Yeast and Products Company.
Photograph

Kemper Homestead

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Kemper homestead with a wrap-around porch, and trees in the foreground.
Photograph

Little Rapids Dam on Fox River

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view down hill of the Fox River and the Little Rapids dam.
Photograph

Nine-Mile House

Date: 1900
Description: View of the exterior of Nine-Mile House.
Photograph

Jourdain Homestead

Date: 1900
Description: Jourdain's homestead, built by Joseph Jourdain in what was then Ft. Howard, Wisconsin. Eleazer Williams is said to have married Joseph Jourdain's daughter ...
Photograph

St. Norbert's College

Date: 1900
Description: View across Fox River towards the St. Norbert's College campus.
Photograph

Long House Dorm, Ripon, Wisconsin

Date: 1903
Description: Long House Dormitory at Ceresco, the Fourierite community, used as a "Poor" house in the 1930's.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1902
Description: A man operating a horse-drawn McCormick corn binder on Swift Ranch.
Photograph

Boy Operating Corn Binder

Date: 1902
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of a young boy operating a horse-drawn McCormick corn binder in a field on the Bachand farm. The boy may be Mike Bachand, or t...
Photograph

Men Loading Cotton Bales

Date: 1905
Description: Men on a city street with bales of cotton loaded onto wagons, possibly in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Photograph

Otto Gasoline Tractor Side View

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of right side of an Otto gasoline engine tractor in front of a white backdrop. Behind the backdrop is the side of a brick building.

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