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Photograph

Man with Wings

Date: 1909
Description: An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird wing-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation.
Photograph

Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two men on a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor.
Photograph

Pyrofax Plant

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, view looking south west.
Photograph

Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two men are posing on a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor.
Photograph

Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two men operating a Nichols & Shephard combine tresher and Hart Parr tractor.
Photograph

Cutting Grain

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Harvesting grain with horse-drawn machinery at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113.
Poster

Farmall Regular Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for the Farmall Regular tractor with an image of the tractor and farming scenes. The poster was intended for International Harvester's e...
Poster

IHC Gasoline Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester stationary, portable and traction engines. Features color illustrations of engines and tractors in a number ...
Photograph

Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

Trabajando en el Campo (Working in the Fields)

Date: 1998
Description: This scene was painted by Seferina Contreras Klinger from memories of her grandmother, Aurelia M. Contreras, and her uncle, Fidel Contreras, who worked pic...
Painting

Three Men and Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: Three men are operating farm machinery being pulled by a team of horses through a field.
Painting

Woman with Rake

Date: 1900
Description: A woman wearing a bonnet is raking a field crop in the foreground. Behind her several farmers are operating a horse-drawn farming machine through the field...

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