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Farmers at Farm Auction

Date: 1954
Description: Group of farmers observe and participate in a farm auction.
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Stock Fair

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of the monthly Stock Fair. The roof of a building is in the left foreground. Horse-drawn wagons line the street, and there is a large buildin...
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Man on Farmall 560 Tractor

Date: 1958
Description: Farmer on a Farmall 560 tractor with disk harrow pausing to talk to another man in a field in front of a farmhouse.
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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Dealership

Date: 1890
Description: Three men posing with a McCormick mower and binder in front of M. Sheehan's McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership. A note on the back of the prin...
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Farmer Filling Manure Spreader

Date: 02 09 1911
Description: Farmer shoveling manure into the box of a horse-drawn International New Low manure spreader in a farm yard.
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Kaminski and his Curtiss Pusher

Date: 08 1912
Description: John Kaminski (the first licensed pilot in Wisconsin, third from the right in checkered cap) with his new Curtiss pusher, the "Sweetheart."
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Schwister's Minnesota-Badger

Date: 1912
Description: John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i...
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View from Slope of New Glarus

Date: 05 27 1961
Description: A view overlooking the edge of the town, taken from an eastern slope, with a farm and cows in the foreground.
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Reliability Race Winner

Date: 08 1928
Description: John P. Wood of Wausau, winner of the 1928 National Air Reliability Tour, with his "Waco from Wausau." Also in the photograph are Wood's prizes: the Edsel ...
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Manitowoc Airport Manager

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Description: Pilot Louis Kakuk, manager of the Manitowoc Airport, with his Waco airplane. Kakuk's career followed a typical pattern for aviators, moving from the freewh...
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Reliability Tour

Date: 1928
Description: Race winners John P. Wood and Archie Towell, both of Wausau, during the National Air Reliability Tour's stop in Wausau.
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Bird's-Eye View of the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls.
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Farmall Works assembly line

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers on a tractor assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works.
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International Harvester Prototype Building Repair Shop

Date: 1949
Description: Farmall tractors and crawler tractors (TracTracTors) in the service shop of an International Harvester prototype dealership building owned by Allied Equipm...
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Planting Muskmelon Plants

Date: 05 24 1979
Description: Lyle Lurvey and Mrs. Lurvey on a tractor planting muskmelon on their farm near Highway 67, south of Dousman.
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Farmer in Field with Farmall Super M-TA and Baler

Date: 1954
Description: Farmer at work in field with McCormick Farmall Super M-TA tractor and baler.
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Farmer with Farmall 350 Tractor and Attached Ensilage Blower

Date: 1956
Description: Farmer driving a McCormick Farmall 350 tractor with attached ensilage blower near a barn and silo.
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"McCormick Day" at Fountain City

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of people, horses, and wagons gathered in the center of Fountain City to celebrate McCormick Day. Scherer's Hotel is at left. The event was o...
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Reluctant Cows at Fairgrounds

Date: 07 16 1971
Description: Bette Brown of Hartland pulls her somewhat reluctant cows across the midway at the Waukesha County Fairgrounds.
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Reverend A. Jacobson's Residence

Date: 1876
Description: "Reverend A. Jacobson's residence, distance" from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views."

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